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For thirty years, John MacArthur has spent nearly thirty hours a week studying the Bible, taking detailed notes, and teaching people what he learns. The result is The MacArthur Study Bible. With The MacArthur Study Bible you will have help understanding difficult passages, simplifying complex doctrines, and bridging important culture, geography, history, and language gaps. It can help bring your...

1:1–12:36 This section recounts Israel’s final years in Egypt before the Exodus. 1:1–5 Genesis also reported the names and the number of Jacob’s descendants who came to Egypt (Gen. 35:23; 46:8–27). 1:5 seventy persons. Cf. Gen. 46:8–27. Acts 7:14 reports 75 with the addition of 5 relatives of Joseph included in the LXX, but not the Heb. text. 1:6–8 This summary of a lengthy period of time moves the record from the death of Joseph (ca. 1804 B.C.), the last recorded event in Genesis, to the radical