Exodus 1:5
And it came to pass that all the persons who were descended from Jacob were seventy souls,—but, Joseph, was already in Egypt.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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In Context
4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
6So then Joseph died and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Cross References
Genesis 50:22And Joseph abode in Egypt, he, and his father’s house,—and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
Deuteronomy 10:22As seventy souls, went thy fathers down to Egypt,—and, now, Yahweh thy God hath made thee like the stars of the heavens for multitude.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 1:2-8
Exodus Moses (the servant of the Lord in writing for him as well as in acting for him—with the pen of God as well as with the rod of God in his hand) having, in the first book of his history, preserved and transmitted the records of the church, while it existed in private families, comes, in this second book, to give us an account of its growth into a great nation; and, as the former furnishes us with the best economics, so this with the best politics. The beginning of the former book shows us how God formed the… Read the whole commentary →