And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.
All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
And all the souls that descended from 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.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Seventy - See Genesis 46:27. The object of the writer in this introductory statement is to give a complete list of the heads of separate families at the time of their settlement in Egypt. See the note at Numbers 26:5.
1:5 Seventy souls - According to the computation we had, Genesis 46:27 , includingJoseph and his two sons. This was just the number of the nations by which the earth was peopled, Genesis 10:1 - 32, for when God separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel, Deuteronomy 32:8 .