Exodus 1:7

_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL, AND INCREASED ABUNDANTLY, AND MULTIPLIED, AND WAXED EXCEEDING MIGHTY; AND THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH THEM._ The children of Israel. The ethnic name of the descendants of Jacob was Hebrews. "The children of Israel," or "Israelites," was a religious designation; and Moses uses it here, as he is now commencing to relate the national history of that people who were separated from the general mass of corruption to be trained up in the knowledge and to the worship of God-the infant church. WERE FRUITFUL ... A variety of expressions are employed to represent the rapidity of increase х_ PAARUW_ (H6509), brought forth young, were fruitful; (_ WAYISHRªTSUW_ (H8317), bred abundantly, like fish or reptiles; _ WAYIRBUW_ (H7235), and multiplied. This word is frequently cou

7._And the children of Israel were fruitful. _(8) To what an extent they increased Moses relates in the 12th chapter, viz., to the number of 600,000, besides women and children; which was certainly an incredible increase for so short a time. For, though 430 years be counted from the date of the covenant with Abraham to the departure of the people, it is clear that half of them had elapsed before Jacob went down into Egypt; so that the Israelites sojourned in that land only 200 years, or little more — say ten years more. How then could it come to pass that in so short a time a single family could have grown into so many myriads? It would have been an immense and extraordinary increase if 10,000 had sprung from every tribe; but this more than quadruples that number. Wherefore certain sceptics, perceiving that the relation of Moses surpasses the ordinary ratio of human propagation, and esti...

1-7 During more than 200 years, while Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived at liberty, the Hebrews increased slowly; only about seventy persons went down into Egypt. There, in about the same number of years, though under cruel bondage, they became a large nation. This wonderful increase was according to the promise long before made unto the fathers. Though the performance of God's promises is sometimes slow, it is always sure....

Verse Exodus 1:7. _THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL_] פרו _paru_, a general term, signifying that they were like _healthy trees_, bringing forth an _abundance of fruit_. _AND INCREASED_] ישרץ _yishretsu_, they increased _like fishes_, as the original word implies. See Genesis 1:20, and the note there. Genesis 1:20. _ABUNDANTLY_] ירבו _yirbu_, they _multiplied_; this is a separate term, and should not have been used as an adverb by our translators. _AND WAXED EXCEEDING MIGHTY_] ויעצמו במאד מאד _vaiyaatsmu_ _bimod meod_, and they became strong beyond measure - _superlatively,_ superlat

In no province does the population increase so rapidly as in that which was occupied by the Israelites. See the note at Genesis 47:6. At present it has more flocks and herds than any province in Egypt, and more fishermen, though many villages are deserted. Until the accession of the new king, the relations between the Egyptians and the Israelites were undoubtedly friendly. The expressions used in this verse imply the lapse of a considerable period after the death of Joseph. THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH THEM - i. e. the district allotted to them Genesis 45:10....

EXPOSITION EXODUS 1:7-2 Here the real narrative of Exodus begins. The history of the Israelites from and after the death of Joseph is entered on. The first point touched is THEIR RAPID MULTIPLICATION. The next their falling under the dominion of a NEW KING. The third, HIS MODE OF ACTION UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. It is remarkable that the narrative contains no notes of time. How long the increase continued before the new king arose, how long it went on before he noticed it, how long the attempt was made to cheek it by mere severity of labour, we are not told. Some considerable duration of time is implied, both for the multiplication (verse 7) and for the oppression (verse 11-14); but the narrator is so absorbed in the matters which he has to communicate that the question what time these matters occupied does

AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL,.... In their offspring; became like fruitful trees, as the word signifies: AND INCREASED ABUNDANTLY; like creeping things, or rather like fishes, which increase very much, see Genesis 1:20 AND MULTIPLIED; became very numerous, whereby the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were fulfilled: AND WAXED EXCEEDING MIGHTY; were hale, and strong, of good constitutions, able bodied men, and so more dreaded by the Egyptians: a heap of words is here used to express the vast increase of the people of Israel in Egypt: AND THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH THEM; not the whole land of Egypt, but the land of Goshen: at first they were seated in a village in that country, but now they were spread throughout the towns and cities in it....

ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. ISRAEL'S DELIVERANCE OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE EGYPTIANS 1. The House of Bondage CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The names of the children of Israel; their increase (Exodus 1:1)_ 2. The new king and his policy (Exodus 1:8) 3. The continued increase (Exodus 1:12) 4. Their hard bondage (Exodus 1:13) 5. The midwives commanded (Exodus 1:15) 6. Their disobedience and God's reward (Exodus 1:17) 7. Pharaoh's charg

EXODUS 1:1 TO EXODUS 12:36. ISRAEL IN EGYPT: I. INCREASE AND OPPRESSION. Exodus 1:1 P, Exodus 1:6 J, Exodus 1:7 P. The Sons of Israel. The transition from the fortunes of a family, such as were the subject of the narratives of Gen., to the events of a people's history, such as Ex. is concerned with, is happily marked by the altered rendering children of Israel (7) for the Heb. phrase rendered sons of Israel (1). Exodus 1:1 gives the size of the group from which all the increase came. The round n

THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL. The rapid growth of Israel into. nation is the fact of this paragraph. It is expressed, as usual, in Hebrew by. climax of verbs: _were fruitful_ is taken from the vegetable world in which the increase varies from. simple multiple to several hundredfold; _increased_ (spawned, swarmed) is borrowed from the finny tribes, in which the rate of increase rises to many myriads; _multiplied_ is. general word referring to number; and _waxed exceedingly mighty_ is. similar phrase alluding to the strength which numbers confer, composed of. verb and an adverb repeated, and therefore well adapted to complete the climax. Then follows the result, _the land was filled with them._ --_ Murphy._ Egypt was always celebrated for its fruitfulness, and in no province does the population increase so rapidly as in that occupied by the Israelites. At present it has more flocks...