Exodus 1:5

WEB

⁵All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

KJV

⁵And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

BSB

⁵The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy ^[+] in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

FBV

⁵Jacob had 70 descendants there, including Joseph who was already in Egypt.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 10:22

²²Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

²⁶All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six. ²⁷The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

Judges 8:30

³⁰Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

Exodus 1:20

²⁰God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.