Exode 1:7

7 Et les enfants d'Israël s'accrurent et foisonnèrent, et se multiplièrent et devinrent très puissants; et le pays en fut rempli.

Exode 1:7 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 1:7

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

and increased abundantly;
like creeping things, or rather like fishes, which increase very much, see ( Genesis 1:20 )

and multiplied;
became very numerous, whereby the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were fulfilled:

and waxed exceeding mighty;
were hale, and strong, of good constitutions, able bodied men, and so more dreaded by the Egyptians: a heap of words is here used to express the vast increase of the people of Israel in Egypt:

and the land was filled with them;
not the whole land of Egypt, but the land of Goshen: at first they were seated in a village in that country, but now they were spread throughout the towns and cities in it.

Exode 1:7 In-Context

5 Toutes les personnes issues de Jacob étaient soixante et dix; et Joseph était en Égypte.

6 Or Joseph mourut, ainsi que tous ses frères, et toute cette génération.

7 Et les enfants d'Israël s'accrurent et foisonnèrent, et se multiplièrent et devinrent très puissants; et le pays en fut rempli.

8 Mais il s'éleva sur l'Égypte un nouveau roi, qui n'avait point connu Joseph.

9 Et il dit à son peuple: Voici, le peuple des enfants d'Israël est plus grand et plus puissant que nous;