the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Exodus 1:1
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Exodus 6:14-16, Genesis 29:31-35, Genesis 30:1-21, Genesis 35:18, Genesis 35:23-26, Genesis 46:8-26, Genesis 49:3-27, 1 Chronicles 2:1, 1 Chronicles 2:2, 1 Chronicles 12:23-40, 1 Chronicles 27:16-22, Revelation 7:4-8
Nehemiah, Nehemiah 10:1, in the month, Ezra 10:9, Zechariah 7:1, in the twentieth, Ezra 7:7, Shushan, Shushan, or Susa, was the capital of Susiana, a province of Persia, and the winter residence of the Persian monarchs; situated about 252 miles east of Babylon, and the same distance south-south-east of Ecbatana, in lat. 32 degrees, long. 49 degrees. The circumference of its walls was about 120 stadia. Shouster is supposed to occupy its site. Esther 1:2, Esther 3:15, Daniel 8:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 15:13 - thy Genesis 35:22 - Now the sons Exodus 28:10 - according to their birth Numbers 1:2 - the children Ezekiel 48:1 - the names Acts 7:8 - and Jacob Revelation 4:1 - a door
Cross-References
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now these are the names of the children of Israel which came down into Egypt,.... Of the twelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob, who were heads of the twelve tribes, whose names are here given; since the historian is about to give an account of their coming out of Egypt, and that it might be observed how greatly they increased in it, and how exactly the promise to Abraham, of the multiplication of his seed, was fulfilled: or, "and these are the names" b, c. this book being connected with the former by the copulative "and" and when this was wrote, it is highly probable there was no division of the books made, but the history proceeded in one continued account:
every man and his household came with Jacob; into Egypt, all excepting Joseph, and along with them their families, wives, children, and servants; though wives and servants are not reckoned into the number of the seventy, only such as came out of Jacob's loins: the Targum of Jonathan is,
"a man with the men of his house,''
as if only male children were meant, the sons of Jacob and his grandsons; and Aben Ezra observes, that women were never reckoned in Scripture as of the household or family; but certainly Dinah, and Serah, as they came into Egypt with Jacob, are reckoned among the seventy that came with him thither, Genesis 46:15.
b ×××× "et haec", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now - Literally, âAnd,â indicating a close connection with the preceding narrative. In fact this chapter contains a fulfillment of the predictions recorded in Genesis 46:3 and in Genesis 15:13.
Every man and his household - It may be inferred from various notices that the total number of dependents was considerable, a point of importance in its bearings upon the history of the Exodus (compare Genesis 13:6; Genesis 14:14).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED EXODUS
-Year before the common Year of Christ, 1706.
-Julian Period, 3008.
-Cycle of the Sun, 7.
-Dominical Letter, F.
-Cycle of the Moon, 2.
-Indiction, 15.
-Creation from Tisri or September, 2298.
CHAPTER I
The names and number of the children of Israel that went down
into Egypt, 1-5.
Joseph and all his brethren of that generation die, 6.
The great increase of their posterity, 7.
The cruel policy of the king of Egypt to destroy them, 8-11.
They increase greatly, notwithstanding their affliction, 12.
Account of their hard bondage, 13, 14.
Pharaoh's command to the Hebrew midwives to kill all the male
children, 15,16.
The midwives disobey the king's command, and, on being questioned,
vindicate themselves, 17-19.
God is pleased with their conduct, blesses them, and increases
the people, 20, 21.
Pharaoh gives a general command to the Egyptians to drown all the
male children of the Hebrews, 22.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse Exodus 1:1. These are the names — Though this book is a continuation or the book of Genesis, with which probably it was in former times conjoined, Moses thought it necessary to introduce it with an account of the names and number of the family of Jacob when they came to Egypt, to show that though they were then very few, yet in a short time, under the especial blessing of God, they had multiplied exceedingly; and thus the promise to Abraham had been literally fulfilled. See the notes on Genesis 46:0.
