Genesis 46:27

And the sons of Joseph, which were born to him in Mizraim, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jakob which went into Mizraim were seventy.

Targum Onkelos

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 which went with Jakob into Mizraim, which came forth from his loins, besides the wives of Jakob’s sons, all the souls, sixty and six.

28And he sent Jehuda before him to Joseph, to make the way clear before him at Goshen, and he came to the land of Goshen.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:1And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Mizraim with Jakob; (each) man with the men of his house they came in:

Exodus 24:1And He said to Mosheh, Come up before the Lord, thou and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and they shall worship at a distance.

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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