Exodus 1:5

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, ⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵ All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. ⁶ Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. ⁷ The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loins: Heb. thigh, Genesis 46:26, Judges 8:30, *marg.

seventy: Exodus 1:20, Genesis 46:26, Genesis 46:27, Deuteronomy 10:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:19 - Rachel Exodus 24:1 - seventy Deuteronomy 26:5 - a few Jeremiah 52:29 - persons Hebrews 7:5 - come

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:13
There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Genesis 1:19
There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

Psalms 19:2
Day after day they pour forth speech, And night after night they display knowledge.

Psalms 74:16
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalms 104:20
You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls,.... "Souls" are put for persons; of the number seventy, and how reckoned, :-. This was but a small number that went down to Egypt, when compared with that which went out of it; and that it should be compared with it is the design of its being mentioned, see Exodus 12:37:

for Joseph was in Egypt already; and is the reason why he is not reckoned among the sons of Jacob, that came thither with him; though rather it may be better rendered, "with Joseph who was in Egypt" c; for he must be reckoned, and indeed his two sons also, to make up the number seventy; therefore Jonathan rightly supplies it,

"with Joseph and his sons who were in Egypt,''

Exodus 12:37- :.

c ויסף "cum Josepho qui erat in Aegypto", Junius & Tremellius, Ainsworth, Noldius, No. 1197. p. 273. so the Arabic version, Kimchi, and Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seventy - See Genesis 46:27. The object of the writer in this introductory statement is to give a complete list of the heads of separate families at the time of their settlement in Egypt. See the note at Numbers 26:5.