Genesis 46:27

And the sonnes of Ioseph which were borne him in egipte were.ij. soules: So that all the soulles of the house of Iacob which came in to Egipte are lxx.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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 soulles that came with Iacob into Egipte which came out of his loyns (besyde his sonnes wifes) were all togither.lx. and.vi. soulles.

28And he sent Iuda before him vnto Ioseph that the waye myghte be shewed him vnto Gosan and they came in to the lande of Gosan

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Cross References

Acts 7:14Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought and all his kynne thre score and xv. soules.

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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