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

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[a] in all;(A) Joseph was already in Egypt.

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,(B) but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers(C) and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 1:5 Masoretic Text (see also Gen. 46:27); Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14 and note at Gen. 46:27) seventy-five