soules] That is, persons, by a Synecdoche familiar and frequent in Scripture, whereby the soule, the better part, is put for the whole man: for the soule it selfe cometh not from the loines of the fathers of our flesh, but from God the Father of Spirits, Heb. 12 9. Ecclesiastes 12. 7. loines] Or, thigh. This is put in modestie for the part betwixt the thighs, and the rather because (as Anatomists write) there bee veines in the thigh, which rising from the veines of the loines, goe along to that part, and carry in the matter for the seed of generation. Of the modest expressions of the Scripture, see Annot. on Genesis 4:1. and the fourth Annot. on Chap 49. 10. threescore and sixe] Not reckoning in this number either Jacob or Joseph, or his two sonnes, who were in Egypt already.