🔥WEB · Exodus 1:5
What does Exodus 1:5 mean?
"All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already."
— Exodus 1:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
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