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The Israelites Multiply in Egypt

Exodus 1:5

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Sons of Israel, or sons of God? (Deuteronomy 32:8)

In 11 translations

BSB
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.MT (see also Genesis 46:27); DSS and LXX (see also Acts 7:14) seventy-five
KJV
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.loins: Heb. thigh
WEB
All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
ASV
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.
LSV
And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as for Joseph, he was in Egypt.
YLT
And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt.
DBY
And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt.
DRC
And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
GNV
So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.
JPS
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.
LXXE
But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls born of Jacob were seventy-five.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַֽיְהִ֗י כָּל־נֶ֛פֶשׁ יֹצְאֵ֥י יֶֽרֶךְ־יַעֲקֹ֖ב שִׁבְעִ֣ים נָ֑פֶשׁ וְיוֹסֵ֖ף הָיָ֥ה בְמִצְרָֽיִם׃
LXX-Br
Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ἦν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ· ἦσαν δὲ πᾶσαι ψυχαὶ ἐξ Ἰακὼβ, πέντε καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  • Genesis 46:26–27All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons. And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s…
  • Judges 8:30Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
  • Exodus 1:20So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.

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