And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
The book is named from the Greek for the going out, referring to the departure of Israel from Egypt, and the verse belongs to its first, mainly historical division covering chapters 1 to 18. Within that division it belongs to the group of chapters 5 to 10 that relate the interviews with Pharaoh, the contest with his magicians, and the infliction of the plagues leading toward the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn, and the hurried departure of Israel.
It belongs to the detailed story of the great deliverance from bitter bondage and oppression after Israel grew more and mightier than the Egyptians. It shows how the family comfortably settled in Egypt became a nation with thorough organization, efficient leadership under Moses from his rescue in infancy onward, a complete code of laws, and an established form of worship.
It stands in the account of Exodus 1 to 12 set three and one-half millenniums ago, when Egypt ruled the world as the greatest of the kingdoms of earth, acknowledged for might and power and skill and wisdom in statecraft. It was enriched by its annually overflowing river and by the sun in producing food, both of which it deified and worshiped, with its kings holding their title as representatives of the sun-god. At that time the few descendants of the nomadic patriarch Abraham sought supplies from its granaries, where the captive slave Joseph had taught Pharaoh to store grain in plenteous years and had instituted a just land-law with easy rent and taxes. While Joseph was prime minister and while his memory was honored, Egypt prospered and the people who lived in Egypt knew no oppression.
The book is named from the Greek for the going out, referring to the departure of Israel from Egypt, and the verse belongs to its first, mainly historical division covering chapters 1 to 18. Within that division it belongs to the group of chapters 5 to 10 that relate the interviews with Pharaoh, the contest with his magicians, and the infliction of the plagues leading toward the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn, and the hurried departure of Israel.
It belongs to the detailed story of the great deliverance from bitter bondage and oppression after Israel grew more and mightier than the Egyptians. It shows how the family comfortably settled in Egypt became a nation with thorough organization, efficient leadership under Moses from his rescue in infancy onward, a complete code of laws, and an established form of worship.
It stands in the account of Exodus 1 to 12 set three and one-half millenniums ago, when Egypt ruled the world as the greatest of the kingdoms of earth, acknowledged for might and power and skill and wisdom in statecraft. It was enriched by its annually overflowing river and by the sun in producing food, both of which it deified and worshiped, with its kings holding their title as representatives of the sun-god. At that time the few descendants of the nomadic patriarch Abraham sought supplies from its granaries, where the captive slave Joseph had taught Pharaoh to store grain in plenteous years and had instituted a just land-law with easy rent and taxes. While Joseph was prime minister and while his memory was honored, Egypt prospered and the people who lived in Egypt knew no oppression.