In no province does the population increase so rapidly as in that which was occupied by the Israelites. See the note at Genesis 47:6. At present, i…

The children of Israel were fruitful. —A great multiplication is evidently intended.

Egypt was a particularly heal…

And the children of Israel were fruitful.⁸ Moses relates in the twelfth chapter the extent to which they increased, namely, to …

And the children of Israel were fruitful
In their offspring; became like fruitful trees, as the word signifies:

During more than 200 years, while Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived at liberty, the Hebrews increased slowly; only about seventy persons went down in…