Exodus 1:1-7

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Israel Oppressed in Egypt

1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:^(A)

²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

⁴Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

⁵The total number of Jacob’s descendants^[a] was seventy;^[b]^(B) Joseph was already in Egypt.

⁶Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died.^(C) ⁷But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous^(D) so that the land was filled with them.

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Footnotes

1:5 Lit of people issuing from Jacob’s loins
1:5 LXX, DSS read 75; Gn 46:27; Ac 7:14

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