^9 [a]“Hurry back, then, to my father and tell him: ‘Thus says your son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me without delay.^{(A) 10} You can settle in the region of Goshen,^[b] where you will be near me—you and your children and children’s children, your flocks and herds, and everything that you own. ¹¹ I will provide for you there in the five years of famine that lie ahead, so that you and your household and all that are yours will not suffer want.’

¹⁸ There get your father and your households, and then come to me; I will assign you the best land in Egypt, where you will live off the fat of the land.’^{(A) 19} Instruct them further: ‘Do this. Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your children and your wives and bring your father back here.

²⁷ Together with Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt—two persons—all the people comprising the household of Jacob who had come to Egypt amounted to seventy persons^[a] in all.^(A)

⁵ The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants^[a] was seventy.^(A) Joseph was already in Egypt.

²² Seventy strong your ancestors went down to Egypt,^(A) and now the Lord, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.