with book in the closest possible way by t iui CHAPTER I. simple copnlative "and." (Compare Josh. i. ] , Vers. 1-6.-The Book of Exodus, being Judg. i. 1, Ruth, Samuel, Kings, Ezra, Nehe- miah, and Esther.) This practice, so unlike written in continuation of the history recorded that of secnlar writers, can only be explained in Genesis, is carefully connected with it by by the instinctive feeling of all, that they e. recu.pitnlation. The recu.pitulation involves were contributors to a single book, each later three points :-1. The names of Ju.cob's child- writer a continue.tor of the narrative placed on ren; 2. The number of Jncob's descendants record by his predecessor. In the Pentateuch, if we admit a single author, the in.itial vau; who went down into Egypt; and 3. The death will be less remarkable, since it will merelv of Joseph. Verses 1-4 u.re a recapitulu.tion of serve to join together the different sections of Gen. xxxv. 22-26; verse 5, of Gen. xlvi. 27; a single treatise. Which came into Egypt. and verse 6, of Gen. 1. 26. In no cu.se, how- The next two words of the original, "with ever, is the recapitulu.tion exu.ct, or (so to Jacob," belong properly to this clause. The whole verse is best translated, "Now these are speak) mechanicu.l. The "households" of the nu.mes of the children of Israel which co.me verse 1 had not been mentioned previously ; into Egypt with Jacob: they came every man Joseph had not in Genesis been separu.ted off with bis household." So the LXX., Pagn.in.i, from his brethren, as he is in verse 5 ; nor Kalisch, Geddes, Boothroyd, etc. Every man hu.d the deu.ths of " hls brethren " been re- and his household. This is important in connection with the vexed question of the corded, much less of "all that generu.tion." possible increu.se of the original band of so- Thus there is here no " vain repetition." called " Isru.elites " within the space of 430 New facts come out in the course of the years to such a number as is said to have recu.pitulation; and the narru.tive advances quitted Emt with Moses (eh. xii. 37). The while u.iming especially at maintaining its "household of Abraham comprised 318 adult males (Gen. xiv. 14). The "house- continuity. holds" of Jacob, his eleven sons, and hie Ver.1.-Now these are the names. Lite- numerous grown-up grandsons, have been rally, "And these u.re the nu.mes." Compare with reu.son estimated at " several thousands." Gen. xlvi. 8, where the phru.se used is the (Kurtz, 'History of the Old Covenant,' vol. ii same. We hu.ve here the first example of p. 149, E.T.) thu.t almost universal practice of the writers Vers. 2-5.-The sons of the legitimate wi vei; of the Historicu.l Scriptures to connect book Leah and Raebel are placed first, in the B 2 THE DOOK OF EXODUS. [en. 1. 1-6.
order of their seniority (Gen. xxi.x, 32--35 ; Oriental e.nd Hcbre.istic, however op1iosed to xxx. 18-20; xxxv. lS); then those of the Wcstcrn habits of thought. To stumblo e.t it ~eronde.ry wiYes, or concubines, also in the shows a narrow and carping spirit. (Compare order of their birth (ib. xxx. 6-13). The note on Gen. xlvi. 15.) !'or Joseph was in order is different from that observed in Egypt already, Joseph, i.e., he.s not been Gen. xh;,, and seems intended to do honour mentioned with the other sons of J ncob, since to legitimate, as opposed to secondary, wed- he did not "come into Egypt with Ja.cob," lock. The omission of Joseph follows neces- but was there previously. The transfer of tho sarily from the exact form of the opening clause to the commencement of the verso, phrase, " These are the no.mes of the children which is me.de by the LXX., is unnecesso.ry. of Israel. which came into Egypt with Jacob." Ver. 6. -And Joseph died, Or, "So Ver. 5.-All the souls the.t oe.me out of Joseph died "-a reference to Gen. I. 26 the loins of J'e.oob were seventy souls. -e.nd all his brethren. All the other actual This is manifestly intended e.s a repetition of sons of Jacob-some probe.bly before him; Gen. xh;. 27, and throws the reader back some, as Levi (eh. vi. 16), after him. Joseph's upon the Jeuils there e.ddnced, which make " hundred and ten yee.rs II did not constitute up tho rxJ1Ct nmnber of "seventy sonls," by an extreme longevity. And all that gene- the inclnsion of Ja.cob himself, of Joseph, and re.tion. All the wives of Ja.cob's sons, their of Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Ma.ne.sseh. sister Dinah, and the full-grown members of The ine.ccnracy by which Jacob is counted their households who e.ccompa.nied them into among his own descendants, is thoroughly Egypt.