And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

I will ... make of thee a great nation. How truly this promise was fulfilled, appears in the fact, that the 70 souls who went down into Egypt increased, in the space of 215 years, to an immense multitude (see the note at Exodus 12:37).

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