Exo 1:1-5, Num 1:5-15, 13:4-15, Rev 7:4-8 | TSK | STEP | The title of this Book is derived from the Septuagint; in which it is called [exodos,], "Exodus;" or, as it is in the Codex Alexandrinus, [exodos aiguptou,] "the Exodus or departure from Egypt;" but it is called in Hebrew Bibles [w'lh shmwt,] {Weelleh Shemoth,} "these are the names", or merely, [shmwt,] {Shemoth,} "names", from the words with which it commences. The children of Israel, after Joseph's death, increase. The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply. The godliness of the midwives, in saving the men children alive. Pharaoh commands the male children to be cast into the river.

Exodus 1:1-5

The title of this Book is derived from the Septuagint; in which it is called [exodos,], "Exodus;" or, as it is in the Codex Alexandrinus, [exodos aiguptou,] "the Exodus or departure from Egypt;" but it is called in Hebrew Bibles [w'lh shmwt,] {Weelleh Shemoth,} "these are the names", or merely, [shmwt,] {Shemoth,} "names", from the words with which it commences.

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.

6:14-16; Ge 29:31-35; 30:1-21; 35:18,23-26; 46:8-26; 49:3-27

1Ch 2:1,2; 12:23-40; 27:16-22; Re 7:4-8

Reuben.

Ge 35:22

Issachar.

Ge 35:23

Benjamin.

28:20

loins. Heb. thigh.

Ge 46:26; Jud 8:30; *marg:

seventy.

20; Ge 46:26,27; De 10:22

Numbers 1:5-15

Elizur.

2:10; 7:30; 10:18; Ge 29:32-35; 30:5-20; 35:17-26; 46:8-24; 49:1-33

Ex 1:2-5; De 33:1-29; Re 7:4-8

Shelumiel.

2:12; 7:36

Nahshon.

2:3; 7:12; 10:14; Ru 4:18; 1Ch 2:10,11; Mt 1:2-5; Lu 3:32

Naasson.

Nethaneel.

2:5; 7:18; 10:15

Eliab.

2:7; 7:24; 10:16

Elishama.

2:18; 7:48; 10:22; 1Ch 7:26,27

Gamaliel.

Abidan.

Ahiezer.

Pagiel.

Eliasaph.

Son of Reuel.

Deuel.As the [d,] {daleth} is very like the [r,] {resh,} they might be easily mistaken for each other; and hence this person being called both Dëuel and Rëuel, may be easily accounted for. The Septuagint and Syriac have Reuel, in this chapter; and in ch. 2:14, the Samaritan, Vulgate, and Arabic have Deuel, instead of Reuel, with which reading a vast number of MSS. concur, and which is also supported by ch. 7:42, 10:20. We may therefore safely conclude, the Dëuel, and not Rëuel, was the original reading.

Ahira.

2:29; 7:78; 10:27