Exodus 1:5
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New International Version (©2011)
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.

New Living Translation (©2007)
In all, Jacob had seventy descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The total number of Jacob's descendants was 70; Joseph was already in Egypt.

International Standard Version (©2012)
All those who descended from Jacob totaled 75 persons. Now Joseph was already in Egypt.

NET Bible (©2006)
All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joseph was already in Egypt. The total number of Jacob's descendants was 70.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And all persons that were direct offspring of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

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

American Standard Version
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

Darby Bible Translation
And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt.

English Revised Version
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the souls that descended from Jacob, were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-7 During more than 200 years, while Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived at liberty, the Hebrews increased slowly; only about seventy persons went down into Egypt. There, in about the same number of years, though under cruel bondage, they became a large nation. This wonderful increase was according to the promise long before made unto the fathers. Though the performance of God's promises is sometimes slow, it is always sure.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls,.... "Souls" are put for persons; of the number seventy, and how reckoned; see Gill on Genesis 46:27. This was but a small number that went down to Egypt, when compared with that which went out of it; and that it should be compared with it is the design of its being mentioned, see Exodus 12:37,

for Joseph was in Egypt already; and is the reason why he is not reckoned among the sons of Jacob, that came thither with him; though rather it may be better rendered, "with Joseph who was in Egypt" (c); for he must be reckoned, and indeed his two sons also, to make up the number seventy; therefore Jonathan rightly supplies it,"with Joseph and his sons who were in Egypt,''See Gill on Genesis 46:27.

(c) "cum Josepho qui erat in Aegypto", Junius & Tremellius, Ainsworth, Noldius, No. 1197. p. 273. so the Arabic version, Kimchi, and Ben Melech.

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The Israelites Multiply in Egypt
…4Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

Acts 7:14 After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all.
Genesis 46:26 All those who went to Egypt with Jacob--those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons' wives--numbered sixty-six persons.
Genesis 46:27 With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.
Exodus 1:4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
Deuteronomy 10:22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.