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A wide Nile-side settlement with Hebrew families, children, fields and modest homes; convey a thriving community, no named patriarch shown.
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Exodus 1:1-7

A family becomes a people

Story guide: Across generations, Israel grows into a numerous people in Egypt.

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1These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each man with his household.

2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.

3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin.

4Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

5And all the persons who came from Jacob’s loins were seventy persons, and Joseph was already in Egypt.

6Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

7But the sons of Israel were fruitful and swarmed and multiplied and became exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

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