Genesis 46:26

All those who went to Egypt with Jacob, who were his descendants, not counting Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six in all.

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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 were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter—seven in all.

27With the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, the members of his family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:1These are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down into Egypt as seventy persons; now Yahweh your God has made you as many as the stars of the heavens.

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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