1-5. When Jacob went to Egypt, his son Joseph was already there. So Jacob took his eleven other sons and their families. They were: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. Altogether, Jacob had seventy children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren who went with him.
6. After Joseph, his brothers, and everyone else in that generation had died,
7. the people of Israel became so numerous that the whole region of Goshen was full of them.
8. Many years later a new king came to power. He did not know what Joseph had done for Egypt,
20-21. God was good to the two women because they truly respected him, and he blessed them with children of their own.The Hebrews kept increasing