raelz, ſaying, * God. will ſurely viſic you, and ye ſhall * Exod: carry up my bones & hence. þ For the ſame reaſon which moved Jacob to require an Oath Joſh: 24. ; from him, Gen. 47. 30, 31. # He ſaith not, of his brethren, but of Iſrael's children ; under which his Grandchildren are comprehended,
and ſeem principally intended here ;either becauſe his Brethren were moſt of them dead, or rather becauſe he knew that they were nor ro go out of Egypt in his Brethrens time,but in their ſecond orthird Ge- nerarion. & (2. e.) My dead Body : buthe mentions only his Bones, becauſe part of his Body was corrupted, and the other part though preſerved from Corruption by the embalming, yet was ſo changed and adulterated with the Spices, and other materiels which they uſed, that it looked like another thing : Only his Bones remained intire and unchanged. Nxeft. Why did he not deſire to be preſent= ly carried thither, and buried there, as his Father did? 4»ſw.r. Leſt he ſhould diſoblige the Zgyprians, and provoke them againſt his Bre- thren and Children. The removal of hjs father thither was neceſ- fary and forced from him by an Oath, but the order for the remo- val of himſelf would have been voluntary and deſigned, and there. fore could not have eſcaped the Cenſure of an ungreatful Contempr of the Land of Egypt,. which as it was thought. good enough for
him and his to live in, ſhould have been judged to too for his bu- ' rial. 2. That by theſe his Remains, his Memory might be the lon
ger and better preſerved both with the Egyptians, who for his ſake might ſhew kindneſs to his near Relations ; and with the 1ſraelites,to whom this was a viſible pledge of their Deliverance, and an. help to their Faith, and an obligation to them to perſiſt in the true Re-
ligion.
26 So Joſeph died, being an hundred and ten years -
old 7: and they imbalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
7' So for about Thirteen years of AfMi&ion he enjoyed Eighty
him:
years of Honour, and as much Happineſs as carth could afford
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Annatations on EXODUS.
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Frer the death of Joſeph, ho had ſent for bis Father's Heuſe into Egypt, the Children of Iſrael exceedingly multi= | plied, notwithſtanding Pharaoh's cruel oppreſſing of then ; from under which, God, bearing their cry, brought them with a ſtrong hand. Wherefore this Book is ealled by the Greeks Exodus, 7. e. A going forth ; containing an Hiforical Account of paſſages for about ene hundred and forty years ; with the wonderful raiſing up of Moſes, who, together with Aaron, were to be inftruments of their Deliverance ; and accordingly after the inflicting ten dreadful Plagues upon Pharaoh, brought them into the Wilderneſs through tbe Red-Sea, wherein Pharaoh, ( his Heart being hardned under all theſe Plagues) and all bis Hoſt purſuing of them, were drowned ; God baving firſt inſtituted the Paſſover, as an abidting Sacrament to bring to their remembrance in after times this great Deliverance, | In their condutt through. the Wilderneſs, God gave them the ſignal mark of bis preſenes in the pillar of a Cloud, and the pillar of Fire 5 who,notwithſtanding their great aud reiterated murmurings.gave them Food, both Bread and Fleſh from Heaven, awd Drink out of the Rock ; and, when they were come to Mount Sinai, be there gave them the Meral Lew, beſide cther both Politick, and Eccleſiaſtical Ordinances ; Afterwards, the breaking of the Tables being eccaſioned by the Idolatry of the Golden Calf, God graciouſly renewed his Covenant with them : There being alſo a Tabernacle, and Ark, and other things to
be made by
God's command, the bounty of the People, in order to the making and furniſhing thereof, is bere (et down , which _
being finiſhed, the Tabernacle is anointed, and filled with the glory of Ged.
CHAP. Lk
The names and numbers of the children of Iſrael that came into Ezypt, Ver. J==—n—eg, Joſeph, his brethren, and that generation die, 6. A new king, who knew not Joſeph, 8. Goeth about by afflitfion, Oc. to ſuppreſs the Iſraelites, g--=-=-==== II. They increaſe, 12-=«==-=-14, Pharaoh commands the midwives to kill the male-children,. 15, 16. They fear God and obey not the king, 17. For this God bleſſeth the mid- Wives, 1$--==-.=--21. Pharach commands all the male-children to be
drowned, 22.
O W theſe are the names of * the children of Iſrael which came into Egypt a, every man and his houſhold 6 came with Ja-
Y cob.
a This Liſt is here repeated, that by comparing this ſmall Root with ſo vaſt a company of Branches as grew upon it, we may ſee the wonderful Providence of God in the fulfilling of his Promiſes. b His Children and Grandchildren, as the word houſe is taken Ruth 4: II: 2 Sam: 7, 11. 1 Kings 21: 29.
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Iiffachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin c.
c Who, though the youngeſt of all, is placed before Dan, Naph.'
tali, &c. becauſe theſe were the Sons of the Hand-maidens.
4 Dan, and N#phcali, Gad and Aſher.
5 And all the ſouls that came out of the Þ loins of Jacob, were * ſerenty ſouls 4 : for Joſeph was in Egypt already.
d Including Jacob and Joſeph, and his two Sons. See Gen: 46:26, 27. and Dex; 10; 22, Or if they were but lixty nine, they are
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called ſeventy by a round number, inſtances.
6 And Joſeph died,and all his brethren, and all that
generation e, Ee. (5:6
Brethren.
of which we ſhall have many
increaſed abundantly and multiplied f, and waxed
them.
F Here are many words; and ſome very emphatical, to expreſs their incredible Multiplication. g This may relate either to Saks Numbers, which greatly added to their Strength, or to their Con«