Genesis 46:27

and, the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: All the souls of the house of Jacob that came into Egypt, were seventy.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 that came in with Jacob to Egypt that had come forth of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives,—all the souls, were sixty-six;

28And he sent, Judah, before him unto Joseph, to direct his face to Goshen,—so they came in towards 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, with Jacob, did each man and his household come in:—

Exodus 24:1And unto Moses, he said—Come up unto Yahweh—thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, so shall ye bow yourselves down from afar.

Acts 7:14And Joseph, sending forth, called for Jacob his father, and all the kindred, consisting of 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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