Exodus 1

1 The children of Israel, after Joseph's death, increase.

8 The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply.

15 The godliness of the midwives, in saving the men children alive.

22 Pharaoh commands the male children to be cast into the river.

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Reuben <07205> [Reuben.]

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Issachar <03485> [Issachar.]

Benjamin <01144> [Benjamin.]

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<03409> [loins. Heb. thigh.]

seventy <07657> [seventy.]

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[A.M. 2369. B.C. 1635.]

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fruitful <06509> [fruitful.]

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new king <02319 04428> [a new king.]

Probably Rameses Miamum, or his son Amenophis, who succeeded him about this period; and by his not knowing Joseph is meant his not acknowledging his obligation to him.

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people ...... people <05971> [the people.]

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Come <03051> [Come on.]

wisely <02449> [wisely.]

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oppress <06031> [to afflict.]

hard labor <05450> [burdens.]

Rameses <07486> [Raamses.]

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oppressed <06031> [But the more, etc. Heb. and as they afflicted them, so they multiplied, etc.]

loathed <06973> [grieved.]

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lives <02416> [their lives.]

[in mortar.]

rigorous <06531> [was with rigour.]

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observe .... delivery <07200 070> [and see them.]

Or, rather, "and ye see them by the stone-troughs;" for so {ovnayim,} from {aven,} a stone, seems to signify (compare ch. 7:19), in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, Nos. 312, 313.

kill <04191> [then ye shall.]

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feared God <03372 0430> [feared God.]

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Why .... done <04069 06213> [Why have.]

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God <0430> [God.]

people <05971> [the people.]

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made households <06213 01004> [made them.]

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sons <01121> [A.M. 2431. B.C. 1573. Every son.]