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Ex. 1:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came intob Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

Gen. 46:8• ⁸And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. (Gen. 46:8)

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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.

1-7: The children of Israel, after Joseph's death, increase.

8-14: The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply.

15-21: The godliness of the midwives, in saving the men children alive.

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

Ex. 6:14‑16• ¹⁴These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
¹⁵And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
¹⁶And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years. (Ex. 6:14‑16)

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Gen. 29:31‑35• ³¹And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
³²And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
³³And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
³⁴And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
³⁵And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing. (Gen. 29:31‑35)

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Gen. 30:1‑21• ¹And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
²And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
³And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
⁴And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
⁵And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
⁶And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
⁷And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
⁸And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
⁹When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
¹⁰And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
¹¹And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
¹²And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
¹³And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
¹⁴And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
¹⁵And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
¹⁶And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
¹⁷And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
¹⁸And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
¹⁹And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
²⁰And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
²¹And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. (Gen. 30:1‑21)

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Gen. 35:18,23‑26• ¹⁸And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
²³The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
²⁴The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
²⁶And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. (Gen. 35:18,23‑26)

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Gen. 46:8‑26• ⁸And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
⁹And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
¹⁰And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
¹¹And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
¹²And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
¹³And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
¹⁴And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
¹⁵These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
¹⁶And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
¹⁷And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
¹⁸These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
¹⁹The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
²⁰And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
²¹And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
²²These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
²³And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
²⁴And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
²⁵These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
²⁶All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; (Gen. 46:8‑26)

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Gen. 49:3‑27• ³Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
⁴Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
⁶O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
⁸Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
⁹Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
¹⁰The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
¹¹Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
¹²His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
¹³Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
¹⁴Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
¹⁵And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
¹⁶Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
¹⁷Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
¹⁸I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
¹⁹Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
²⁰Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
²¹Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
²²Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
²³The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
²⁴But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
²⁵Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
²⁶The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
²⁷Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. (Gen. 49:3‑27)

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1 Chron. 2:1‑2• ¹These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
²Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. (1 Chron. 2:1‑2)

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1 Chron. 12:23‑40• ²³And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.
²⁴The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
²⁵Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
²⁶Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
²⁷And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
²⁸And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
²⁹And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
³⁰And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
³¹And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
³²And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
³³Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
³⁴And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
³⁵And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
³⁶And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
³⁷And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
³⁸All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
³⁹And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
⁴⁰Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel. (1 Chron. 12:23‑40)

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1 Chron. 27:16‑22• ¹⁶Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:
¹⁷Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:
¹⁸Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
¹⁹Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:
²⁰Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
²¹Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
²²Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel. (1 Chron. 27:16‑22)

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• The things that are done on the earth He does them Himself. He prepares all beforehand when nothing is as yet apparent to man. (“Exodus 1-2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

And these are the names of the sons of Israel who had come into Egypt; with Jacob had they come, each witha his household:

JND Translation Notes

Lit. "the man and."