Genesis 46:27

And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

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In The King James Version

And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

In Context

26All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

28Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.

Exodus 24:1And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

Acts 7:14Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 46:6-28

Jacob's Removal to Egypt. ( b. c. 1706.) 5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. 8 And these are the… Read the whole commentary →

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