Exodus 1:6

So then Joseph died and all his brethren, and all that generation.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

In Context

5And it came to pass that all the persons who were descended from Jacob were seventy souls,—but, Joseph, was already in Egypt.

7But the sons of Israel, were fruitful and swarmed and multiplied and waxed mighty, with exceeding vigour,—so that the land was filled with them.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:24Then said Joseph unto his brethren, I, am about to die,—but God will surely concern, himself for you, so will he take you up out of this land, into the land which he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob.

Judges 2:10All that generation also, were gathered unto their fathers,—and there arose another generation, after them, who had not known Yahweh, nor even the work which he had wrought for Israel.

Acts 7:14And Joseph, sending forth, called for Jacob his father, and all the kindred, consisting of seventy-five souls;

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 →

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