Exodus 1:3
in Exodus 1Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
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Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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This verse in Exodus 1
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the names of the children of Israel
on Exodus 1:1-4
The book opens with the word And, so in Hebrew it reads as the next paragraph of Genesis rather than the start of something separate, and its Hebrew title is taken from this verse, Shemoth, meaning names. The list compresses Genesis 46:8 to 27, running Leah's six sons first, then Rachel's Benjamin, then the four born to Bilhah and Zilpah. Joseph is left out of the roll because he was in Egypt before any of them arrived.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Issachar, Zebulun,.... The other two sons of Jacob, by Leah: Benjamin; the youngest of all Jacob's sons is placed here, being his son by his beloved wife Rachel. Joseph is not put into the account, because he did not go into Egypt with Jacob.
The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 35:23The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
it leads to
- Genesis 30:18–20
Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
- Genesis 29:32–35
And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
- Genesis 46:8–15
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
- Genesis 33:2
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Genesis 30:18–20
Through
Exodus 28:20and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
it leads to
- Daniel 10:6
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of…
- Revelation 21:18–20
The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
- Revelation 4:3
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
- Ezekiel 1:16
The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
- Daniel 10:6
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About Exodus
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.