Verse 5

The total number of Jacob's descendants was seventy, and Joseph was already in Egypt.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt with seventy people, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
  • Gen 46:26-27 : 26 All the members of Jacob’s household who went to Egypt, those who were his direct descendants (not counting the wives of his sons), numbered sixty-six persons in total. 27 And the two sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, brought the total number of Jacob's family who came to Egypt to seventy.
  • Exod 1:20 : 20 So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.
  • Judg 8:30 : 30 Gideon had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.