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Exodus 1:5

Exodus 1:5 is verse 5 of Exodus chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Exodus 1:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

7 but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.

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Genesis 46:26
All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.

Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.

Exodus 1:20
So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.

Genesis 46:27
And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

Deuteronomy 10:22
Your 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.