Genesis 46:27

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

28Then he sent Judah ahead of himself, to Joseph, in order to report to him, and so that he would meet him in Goshen.

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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:

Exodus 24:1He also said to Moses: “Ascend to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders out of Israel, and adore from a distance.

Acts 7:14Then Joseph sent for and brought his father Jacob, with all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

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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