Acts 7:14
Good News Translation
So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;

Contemporary English Version
Joseph sent for his father and his relatives. In all, there were 75 of them.

New American Bible
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob, inviting him and his whole clan, seventy-five persons;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

sent.

Genesis 45:9-11 Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come down to me, linger not. . . .

Psalm 105:23 And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

threescore.

Genesis 46:12,26,27 The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:22 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

1 Chronicles 2:5,6 And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul. . . .

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
13And at the second time, Joseph was known by his brethren: and his kindred was made known to Pharao. 14And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls. 15So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers.…
Cross References
Genesis 45:9
Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come down to me, linger not.

Genesis 45:10
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy sheep, and thy herds, and all things that thou hast.

Genesis 45:13
You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that you have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.

Genesis 46:26
All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.

Genesis 46:27
And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Egypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into Egypt, were seventy.

Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:22
In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Acts 2:41
They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 7:13
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