Exodus 1:1

THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED EXODUS

-Year before the common Year of Christ, 1706.

-Julian Period, 3008.

-Cycle of the Sun, 7.

-Dominical Letter, F.

-Cycle of the Moon, 2.

-Indiction, 15.

-Creation from Tisri or September, 2298.

CHAPTER I

The names and number of the children of Israel that went down

into Egypt, 1-5.

Joseph and all his brethren of that generation die, 6.

The great increase of their posterity, 7.

The cruel policy of the king of Egypt to destroy them, 8-11.

They increase greatly, notwithstanding their affliction, 12.

Account of their hard bondage, 13, 14.

Pharaoh's command to the Hebrew midwives to kill all the male

children, 15,16.

The midwives disobey the king's command, and, on being questioned,

vindicate themselves, 17-19.

God is pleased with their conduct, blesses them, and increases

the people, 20, 21.

Pharaoh gives a general command to the Egyptians to drown all the

male children of the Hebrews, 22.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Exodus 1:1. These are the names] Though this book is a continuation or the book of Genesis, with which probably it was in former times conjoined, Moses thought it necessary to introduce it with an account of the names and number of the family of Jacob when they came to Egypt, to show that though they were then very few, yet in a short time, under the especial blessing of God, they had multiplied exceedingly; and thus the promise to Abraham had been literally fulfilled. See the notes on Genesis 46.