Exodus 1:5 “The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, wh…”

Exodus 1:5

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

World English Bible

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

American Standard Version

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Geneva Bible 1599

So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.

Darby Translation

And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation

And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt.

Bible in Basic English

All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

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Cross references

“loins”

Judges 8:30 Genesis 46:26

Judges 8:30 · BSB

Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.

Genesis 46:26 · BSB

All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.

“seventy”

Deuteronomy 10:22 Exodus 1:20 Genesis 46:27

Deuteronomy 10:22 · BSB

Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Exodus 1:20 · BSB

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.

Genesis 46:27 · BSB

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

6Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

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