5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
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Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; …
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)In these verses we have, 1. A recital of the names of the twelve patriarchs , as they are called, Acts 7:8. Their names are often repeated in scripture, that they may not sound uncouth to us, as other hard names, but that, by their occurring so frequently, they may become familiar to us; and to show how precious God’s spiritual Israel are to him, and how much he delights in them. 2. The account wh…
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