An handfull of gleanings out of the Book of Exodus probable solution of some of the mainest scruples, and explanation of the hardest places of that Booke ... / by John Lightfoot ...

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Title: An handfull of gleanings out of the Book of Exodus probable solution of some of the mainest scruples, and explanation of the hardest places of that Booke ... / by John Lightfoot ...
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by R. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, and are to be sold at his shop ...,; 1643.
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AN HANDFVLL OF GLEANINGS out of the BOOK OF EXODUS. (Book 1)

SECT. I. Israel afflicted in Aegypt about 120. yeares. (Book 1)

FROM the giving of the promise to Abraham, Gen. 12. to the deliverance out of Aegypt, and the giving of the Law, were 430 yeares, Exod. 12. 40. Gal. ••. 17.

This summe of yeares divided it selfe into two equall parts, for halfe of it was spent before their going into Aegypt, and halfe of it in their being there. Two hundred and fifteene yeares were taken up before they went into Aegypt, thus: From the promise given to Abraham, to the birth of Isaac, five and twenty yeares; compare Gen. 12. 4. with Gen. 21. 5. From the birth of Is••ac to the birth of Jacob, three∣••core, Gen. 25. 26. from thence to their going downe into Ae∣gypt

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a hundred and thirty, Gen. 27. 9. The other two hundred and fifteene yeares they spent in Aegypt, namely ninety foure, before the death of Levi the longe••liver of all the twelve Tribes, and a hundred twenty one betwixt his death and their delive∣rance.

For Levi and Joseph were both borne in the seven yeares of Jacobs second apprentiship, Gen. 29 & 30. Levi in the fourth, and Joseph in the seventh, so that there were three yeares betweene them: Now Joseph when his Father and brethre•• came downe into Aegypt, was nine and thirty yeares old. Compare Gen. 41. 46. 51. and 45. 6. And then was Levi forty three. And Levi lived an hundred thirty and seven yeares, Exod•• 6. 16. out of which those forty three being deducted which he had spent before their com∣ming downe into Aegypt, it appeareth they were in Aegypt nine∣ty foure yeares before his death: And those ninety foure being deducted out of the two hundred and fifteene, which they spent in that land, it appeareth also that a hundred twenty one yeares passed betwix•• his death and their delivery, and till his death they felt no ••ffliction, Ex••d. 1. 6, 7, 8.