Genesis 46:27
Good News Translation
Two sons were born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's family who went there.

New Revised Standard Version
The children of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

Contemporary English Version
Jacob's two grandsons who were born there made it a total of 70 members of Jacob's family in Egypt.

New American Bible
Together with Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt—two persons—all the people comprising the household of Jacob who had come to Egypt amounted to seventy persons in all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

threescore and ten.

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.

) so that Joseph and his two sons, along with Jacob himself, complete the seventy persons enumerated; and the number in verses

Genesis 46:15,18,22 These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three. . . .

, and

Genesis 46:25 These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven.

amount to that number. The addition of five persons in the LXX. in verse

Genesis 46:20 And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him: Manasses and Ephraim.

, was either the cause or the consequence of another difference here; for in that version the number is seventy-five verses

Genesis 46:15,18,22,25 These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three. . . .

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

Exodus 24:1 And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.

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 7:14 And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

Context
The Children of Bilhah
26All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six. 27And 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.
Cross References
Acts 7:14
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

Genesis 34:30
And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.

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.

Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.

Genesis 46:26
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