Genesis 46:26

All the souls who went into Egypt with Jacob and who went out from his thigh, besides the wives of his sons, were sixty-six.

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In The King James Version

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

In Context

25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and these she bore to Jacob: all these souls are seven.

27Now the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who went into Egypt, were seventy.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:1These are the names of the sons of Israel, who went into Egypt with Jacob. They entered, each one with his house:

Deuteronomy 10:22As seventy souls, your fathers descended into Egypt. And now, behold, the Lord your God has multiplied you to be like the stars of heaven.”

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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