Then Jacob left Beersheba,(A) and Israel’s(B) sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts(C) that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt,(D) taking with them their livestock and the possessions(E) they had acquired(F) in Canaan. Jacob brought with him to Egypt(G) his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.(H)

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And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

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

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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

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

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22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all,(A) and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.(B)

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22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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