Exodus 1:5
All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 10:22 : 22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
- Gen 46:26-27 : 26 All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number.(This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.) 27 Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.
- Exod 1:20 : 20 So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.
- Judg 8:30 : 30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.
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- Gen 46:26-283 verses87%
26All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number.(This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)
27Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.
28Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.
- Acts 7:12-154 verses83%
12So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.
13On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.
14So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.
15So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
- Exod 1:6-72 verses82%
6and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.
7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
- Exod 1:1-22 verses81%
1¶ Blessing during Bondage in Egypt These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt– each man with his household entered with Jacob:
2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
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4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
- Gen 50:7-82 verses77%
7So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him– the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
8all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
- Gen 46:5-73 verses76%
5Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.
6Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.
7He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters– all his descendants.
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25So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
- 1 Chr 2:1-22 verses75%
1Israel’s Descendants These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar and Zebulun;
2Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin; Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Gen 47:1-22 verses75%
1Joseph’s Wise Administration Joseph went and told Pharaoh,“My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”
2He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.
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22Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.
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14After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
- Gen 47:27-282 verses74%
27Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.
28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.
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2This is the account of Jacob.Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
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5Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.
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32From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
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31Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
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17“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,
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3So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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37These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.
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26So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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13They replied,“Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”
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17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!
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9The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,