Exodus 1:1

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Summary

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

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These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi, these are the families of Reuben.

And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.

And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with their father Jacob, Jacob and his sons: The firstborn of Jacob, Reuben.

Reuben, thou are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

And these are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of LORD.

Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

And I heard the number of those sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel.