Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].
5. all the souls that came out, &c.] As Gen 46:26 (also P).
seventy souls ] The number was traditional: cf. Deu 10:22 (where ‘with’ should be as). This passage shews that P interpreted the tradition in the sense of 70 souls without Jacob: other writers interpreted it in the sense of Deu 10:22, and made the number 70 souls including Jacob (cf. Gen 46:8; Gen 46:27 b). See the writer’s Genesis (in the ‘Westminster Commentaries’), pp. 365, 368. Soul in the sense of ‘person,’ though found occasionally elsewhere (but never in the earlier historical books), is peculiarly frequent in P (nearly 100 times).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Seventy – See Gen 46:27. The object of the writer in this introductory statement is to give a complete list of the heads of separate families at the time of their settlement in Egypt. See the note at Num 26:5.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Seventy souls, including Jacob and Joseph, and his two sons. See Gen 46:26,27; Deu 10:22. Or if they were but sixty-nine, they are called seventy by a round number, of which we shall have many instances. i.e. All that were of the same age with Joseph and his brethren.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls,…. “Souls” are put for persons; of the number seventy, and how reckoned, [See comments on Ge 46:27]. This was but a small number that went down to Egypt, when compared with that which went out of it; and that it should be compared with it is the design of its being mentioned, see Ex 12:37:
for Joseph was in Egypt already; and is the reason why he is not reckoned among the sons of Jacob, that came thither with him; though rather it may be better rendered, “with Joseph who was in Egypt” c; for he must be reckoned, and indeed his two sons also, to make up the number seventy; therefore Jonathan rightly supplies it,
“with Joseph and his sons who were in Egypt,”
[See comments on Ge 46:27].
c “cum Josepho qui erat in Aegypto”, Junius & Tremellius, Ainsworth, Noldius, No. 1197. p. 273. so the Arabic version, Kimchi, and Ben Melech.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) All the souls . . . were seventy souls. Comp. Gen. 46:8-27. The number is made up as follows:Jacob himself, 1; his sons, 12; his daughter, Dinah, 1; his grandsons, 51; his grand-daughter Serah, 1; his great-grandsons, 4Total, 70. His daughters, except Dinah, and his sons daughters, except Serah, spoken of in Gen. 46:7, are not included. If his female descendants were, at the time of his descent into Egypt, as numerous as the males, the entire number of those who came out of his loins must have been 132. To form a calculation of the number of persons who entered Egypt with him, we must add the wives of his sons and grandsons, and the husbands of his daughters and granddaughters. A further liberal allowance must be also made for retainers. (See the comment on Exo. 1:1.) It is not perhaps surprising that Kurtz, taking all these classes into account, should calculate that those who entered Egypt with Jacob amounted to several thousands (History of The Old Covenant, vol. ii. p. 149, E.T.).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 1:5. Were seventy souls (See Gen 20:18.) Seventy souls, with Joseph, who was in Egypt already.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Exo 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].
Ver. 5. And all the souls. ] That is, persons; for souls are not begotten, but infused, being divinae particulae aurae. Ecc 12:7 Aristotle himself saw and acknowledged as much. a
Were seventy souls.
a , . – De Gene. Ar., lib. ii. cap. 9.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
souls. Hebrew. nephesh (App-13).
seventy. See on Gen 46:26, Deu 10:22, and Act 7:14.
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loins: Heb. thigh, Gen 46:26, Jdg 8:30, *marg.
seventy: Exo 1:20, Gen 46:26, Gen 46:27, Deu 10:22
Reciprocal: Gen 46:19 – Rachel Exo 24:1 – seventy Deu 26:5 – a few Jer 52:29 – persons Heb 7:5 – come
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 1:5. Seventy souls Or persons, according to the computation we had, Gen 46:27, including Joseph and his two sons. This was just the number of the nations by which the earth was peopled, (Genesis 10.,) for when God separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel,
Deu 32:8.