Exo 1 | 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

had made.

1,24-26; Jos 24:27-29; Heb 11:22

and yielded.

29; 15:5; 25:8,17; 35:29; Job 5:26; 14:10; 30:23; Ec 12:7; Isa 57:1,2

Lu 2:29; Heb 11:13-16; 12:23 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

A.M. 2369. B.C. 1635.

Ge 50:24,26; Ac 7:14-16

fruitful.

12:37; Ge 1:20,28; 9:1; 12:2; 13:16; 15:5; 17:4-6,16; 22:17; 26:4

Ge 28:3,4,14; 35:11; 46:3; 47:27; 48:4,16; De 10:22; 26:5; Ne 9:23

Ps 105:24; Ac 7:17,18

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.

Ec 2:18,19; 9:15; Ac 7:18

the people.

Nu 22:4,5; Job 5:2; Ps 105:24,25; Pr 14:28; 27:4; Ec 4:4; Tit 3:3

Jas 3:14-16; 4:5

Come on.

Ps 10:2; 83:3,4; Pr 1:11

wisely.

Nu 22:6; Job 5:13; Ps 105:25; Pr 16:25; 21:30; Ac 7:19; 23:12

1Co 3:18-20; Jas 3:15-18

to afflict.

3:7; 5:15; Ge 15:13; Nu 20:15; De 26:6

burdens.

2:11; 5:4,5; Ps 68:13; 81:6; 105:13

Raamses.

Ge 47:11; Pr 27:4

But the more, etc. Heb. and as they afflicted them, so theymultiplied, etc.

Ps 105:24; Pr 21:30; Ro 8:28; Heb 12:6-11

grieved.

9; Job 5:2; Pr 27:4; Joh 12:19; Ac 4:2-4; 5:28-33

their lives.

2:23; 6:9; Ge 15:13; Nu 20:15; De 4:20; 26:6; Ru 1:20; Ac 7:19,34

in mortar.

Ps 68:13; 81:6; Na 3:14

was with rigour.

13; 5:7-21; 20:2; Le 25:43,46,53; Isa 14:6; 51:23; 52:5; 58:6

Jer 50:33,34; Mic 3:3

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.

then ye shall.

22; Mt 21:38; Re 12:4

feared God.

Ge 20:11; 42:18; Ne 5:15; Ps 31:19; Pr 8:13; 16:6; 24:11,12; Ec 8:12

Ec 12:13; Da 3:16-18; 6:13; Ho 5:11; Mic 6:16; Mt 10:28; Lu 12:5

Ac 4:19; 5:29

Why have.

2Sa 13:28; Ec 8:4

Jos 2:4-24; 1Sa 21:2; 2Sa 17:19,20

God.

Ps 41:1,2; 61:5; 85:9; 103:11; 111:5; 145:19; Pr 11:18; 19:17

Ec 8:12; Isa 3:10; Mt 10:42; 25:40; Lu 1:50; Heb 6:10