Exodus 1:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
  • Gen 46:26-27 : 26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons. 27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.
  • Exod 1:20 : 20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.
  • Judg 8:30 : 30 Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

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  • Gen 46:26-28
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    26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

    27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

    28 Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

  • Acts 7:12-15
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    12 But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

    13 And the second time his brothers had a meeting with Joseph, and Pharaoh had knowledge of Joseph's family.

    14 Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

    15 And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

  • Exod 1:6-7
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    6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

    7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

  • Exod 1:1-2
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    1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.

    2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

  • 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

  • Gen 50:7-8
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    7 So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

    8 And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 46:5-7
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    5 Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them.

    6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:

    7 His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

  • 25 So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.

  • 1 Chr 2:1-2
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    1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;

    2 Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

  • Gen 47:1-2
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    1 Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.

    2 And he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh.

  • 22 Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

  • 14 And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

  • Gen 47:27-28
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    27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

    28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

  • 2 These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

  • 5 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle.

  • 32 The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

  • 31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

  • 17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

  • 3 So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

  • 37 These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

  • 26 So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

  • 7 Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.

  • 13 Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

  • 17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;

  • 9 And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,