The total number of Jacob’s descendants[a] was 70;[b](A) Joseph was already in Egypt.

Then Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.(B) But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous(C) so that the land was filled with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 1:5 Lit of people issuing from Jacob’s loins
  2. Exodus 1:5 LXX, DSS read 75; Gn 46:27; Ac 7:14

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