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Exodus 1:3

in Exodus 1

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

KJV

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

This verse in Exodus 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

These are the names of the sons 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. The roll of names compresses Genesis 46:8 to 27, and Joseph is left out because he was already in Egypt.

This site's exposition

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin

The list moves from the sons of Leah to the sons of Rachel. Issachar and Zebulun were the last two sons Leah bore, and Benjamin was Rachel's second son, born on the road to Bethlehem.

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 words

Every 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.

  • יִשָּׂשכָ֥רIssachar

    yisoshkharH3485 →

  • זְבוּלֻ֖ןZebulun

    zevulunH2074 →

  • וּבְנְיָמִֽן׃and Benjamin

    uveneyaminH1144 →

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 35:23

    The 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.

  • Through

    Exodus 28:20

    and 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.