(KJV) Exodus 112

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⥃The Israelites Multiply in Egypt [ Genesis 46:7–27 ]

[1] Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.3 [2] Reuben4, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, [3] Issachar5, Zebulun, and Benjamin6, [4] Dan7, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher8. [5] And all the souls that came out of the loins9 of Jacob were seventy10 souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already]. [6] And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.11

[7] [¶]And the children of Israel were fruitful12, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

⥃Oppression by a New King [ Acts 7:15–19 ]

[8] Now there arose up a new king13 over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. [9] And he said unto his people, Behold, the people14 of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we: [10] Come on15, let us deal wisely16 with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [so] get them up out of the land. [11] Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict17 them with their burdens18. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses19. [12] But the more20 they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved21 because of the children of Israel. [13] And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: [14] And they made their lives22 bitter with hard bondage, in morter23, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour24.

[15] And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: [16] And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see [them25] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye shall26 kill him: but if it [be] a daughter, then she shall live. [17] But the midwives feared God27, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. [18] And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have28 ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? [19] And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.29 [20] Therefore God30 dealt well with the midwives: and the people31 multiplied, and waxed very mighty. [21] And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them32 houses. [22] And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son33 that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. 34

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  1. The title of this Book is derived from the Septuagint; in which it is called ΕΞΟΔΟΣ, “Exodus;” or, as it is in the Codex Alexandrinus, ΕΞΟΔΟΣ Αιγυπτου, “the Exodus or departure from Egypt;” but it is called in Hebrew Bibles εΰμδ ωׁξεϊ, Weelleh Shemoth , “these are the names,” or merely, ωׁξεϊ , Shemoth , “names,” from the words with which it commences. Moses was undoubtedly the author of this Book, which forms a continuation of the preceding, and was evidently written after the promulgation of the law. It embraces the history of about 145 years. Moses, having in the Book of Genesis described the creation of the world, the origin of nations, and the peopling of the earth, details in the Book of Exodus the commencement and nature of the Jewish Church and Polity, which has very properly been termed a Theocracy (Θεοκρατια, from Θεος G2316, God, and κρατεω G2902, to rule), in which Jehovah appears not merely as their Creator and God, but as their King. Hence this and the following books of Moses are not purely historical; but contain not only laws for the regulation of their moral conduct and the rites and ceremonies of their religious worship, but judicial and political laws relating to government and civil life. The stupendous facts connected with these events, may be clearly perceived by consulting the marginal references; and many of the circumstances are confirmed by the testimony of heathen writers. Numenius, a Pythagorean philosopher, mentioned by Eusebius, speaks of the opposition of the magicians, whom he calls Jannes and Jambres, to the miracles of Moses. Though the names of these magicians are not preserved in the Sacred Text, yet tradition had preserved them in the Jewish records, from which St. Paul (2Tim 3:8) undoubtedly quotes. Add to this that many of the notions of the heathen respecting the appearance of the Deity, and their religious institutions and laws, were borrowed from this book; and many of their fables were nothing more than distorted traditions of those events which are here plainly related by Moses. ↩

  2. Exod 1:1, The children of Israel, after Joseph’s death, increase; Exod 1:8, The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply; Exod 1:15, The godliness of the midwives, in saving the men children alive; Exod 1:22, Pharaoh commands the male children to be cast into the river. ↩

  3. Exod 6:14-16; Gen 29:31-35, Gen 30:1-21, Gen 35:18, Gen 35:23-26, Gen 46:8-26, Gen 49:3-27; 1Chr 2:1-2, 1Chr 12:23-40, 1Chr 27:16-22; Rev 7:4-8 ↩

  4. Gen 35:22 ↩

  5. Gen 35:23 ↩

  6. Exod 28:20 ↩

  7. Gen 35:25; 1Chr 2:2 ↩

  8. Gen 35:26, Gen 46:17 ↩

  9. Heb. thigh, Gen 46:26; Judg 8:30 *marg. ↩

  10. Exod 1:20; Gen 46:26-27; Deut 10:22 ↩

  11. am 2369, bc 1635, Gen 50:24, Gen 50:26; Acts 7:14-16 ↩

  12. Exod 12:37; Gen 1:20, Gen 1:28, Gen 9:1, Gen 12:2, Gen 13:16, Gen 15:5, Gen 17:4-6, Gen 17:16, Gen 22:17, Gen 26:4; Gen 28:3-4, Gen 28:14, Gen 35:11, Gen 46:3, Gen 47:27, Gen 48:4, Gen 48:16; Deut 10:22, Deut 26:5; Neh 9:23; Ps 105:24; Acts 7:17-18 ↩

  13. 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. Eccl 2:18-19, Eccl 9:15; Acts 7:18 ↩

  14. Num 22:4-5; Job 5:2; Ps 105:24-25; Prov 14:28, Prov 27:4; Eccl 4:4; Titus 3:3; Jas 3:14-16, Jas 4:5 ↩

  15. Ps 10:2, Ps 83:3-4; Prov 1:11 ↩

  16. Num 22:6; Job 5:13; Ps 105:25; Prov 16:25, Prov 21:30; Acts 7:19, Acts 23:12; 1Cor 3:18-20; Jas 3:15-18 ↩

  17. Exod 3:7, Exod 5:15; Gen 15:13; Num 20:15; Deut 26:6 ↩

  18. Exod 2:11, Exod 5:4-5; Ps 68:13, Ps 81:6, Ps 105:13 ↩

  19. Gen 47:11; Prov 27:4 ↩

  20. etc. Heb. and as they afflicted them, so they multiplied, etc. Ps 105:24; Prov 21:30; Rom 8:28; Heb 12:6-11 ↩

  21. Exod 1:9; Job 5:2; Prov 27:4; John 12:19; Acts 4:2-4, Acts 5:28-33 ↩

  22. Exod 2:23, Exod 6:9; Gen 15:13; Num 20:15; Deut 4:20, Deut 26:6; Ruth 1:20; Acts 7:19, Acts 7:34 ↩

  23. Ps 68:13, Ps 81:6; Nah 3:14 ↩

  24. Exod 1:13, Exod 5:7-21, Exod 20:2; Lev 25:43, Lev 25:46, Lev 25:53; Isa 14:6, Isa 51:23, Isa 52:5, Isa 58:6; Jer 50:33-34; Mic 3:3 ↩

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

  26. Exod 1:22; Matt 21:38; Rev 12:4 ↩

  27. Gen 20:11, Gen 42:18; Neh 5:15; Ps 31:19; Prov 8:13, Prov 16:6, Prov 24:11-12; Eccl 8:12; Eccl 12:13; Dan 3:16-18, Dan 6:13; Hos 5:11; Mic 6:16; Matt 10:28; Luke 12:5; Acts 4:19, Acts 5:29 ↩

  28. 2Sam 13:28; Eccl 8:4 ↩

  29. Josh 2:4-24; 1Sam 21:2; 2Sam 17:19-20 ↩

  30. Ps 41:1-2, Ps 61:5, Ps 85:9, Ps 103:11, Ps 111:5, Ps 145:19; Prov 11:18, Prov 19:17; Eccl 8:12; Isa 3:10; Matt 10:42, Matt 25:40; Luke 1:50; Heb 6:10 ↩

  31. Exod 1:7, Exod 1:12 ↩

  32. 1Sam 2:35, 1Sam 25:28; 2Sam 7:11-13, 2Sam 7:27-29; 1Kgs 2:24, 1Kgs 11:38; Ps 37:3; Ps 127:1, Ps 127:3; Prov 24:3; Eccl 8:12; Jer 35:2 ↩

  33. Exod 1:16, Exod 7:19-21; Ps 105:25; Prov 1:16, Prov 4:16, Prov 27:4; Acts 7:19; Rev 16:4-6 ↩

  34. am 2431, bc 1573 ↩