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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Cross-references most cited first
- 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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