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Genesis 46:26

in Genesis 46

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

KJV

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

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This verse in Genesis 46

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis · Written before 420.

(Chapter XLVI, Verse 26 and following) Therefore all the souls that entered Egypt with Jacob, and those that came out of his thighs, apart from the wives of Jacob's sons, were sixty-six souls; and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were nine souls. Therefore all the souls that entered Egypt with Jacob were seventy-five. It is without doubt that except for Joseph and his sons, sixty-six souls that came out of Jacob's thighs entered Egypt. For thus also, gradually through each calculated number, it is proven, and it is found in the Hebrew volumes.

This site's exposition

All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt

on Genesis 46:26-27

The count is given twice, sixty-six who came from his own body and seventy for the whole house once Joseph and his two sons are added. Acts 7:14 says seventy-five, following the Greek text, which counts in grandsons of Ephraim and Manasseh born in Egypt. Jerome works the arithmetic through against the Hebrew. Exodus 1:5 repeats the seventy, and by 1:7 the land is filled with them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt,.... These are in parcels before mentioned, but here they are brought to a sum total; and by this phrase are excluded those that died before, as Er and Onan, and those that were in Egypt before, as Joseph and his two sons; and I should think also all that were born in Egypt afterwards, even while Jacob was living: those reckoned are only such: which came out of his loins: such as were his seed and offspring.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In the speech of Stephen (Ac 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch 7:14-20), born in Egypt, the two accounts coincide.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַ֠נֶּפֶשׁ<the> person

    hanefeshH5315 →754 times

  • הַבָּאָ֨הwho went

    habaahH935 →2568 times

  • לְיַעֲקֹ֤ב[belonging] to Jacob

    leyaakoH3290 →350 times

  • מִצְרַ֙יְמָה֙Egypt towards

    mitzraymahH4714 →641 times

  • יֹצְאֵ֣י[who] came out of

    yotzeeiH3318 →1067 times

  • יְרֵכ֔וֹthigh his

    yerekhoH3409 →34 times

  • מִלְּבַ֖ד<from> <to> besides

    milevadH905 →200 times

  • נְשֵׁ֣י[the] wives of

    nesheiH802 →781 times

  • בְנֵי־[the] sons of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֑בJacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • נֶ֖פֶשׁperson

    nefeshH5315 →754 times

  • שִׁשִּׁ֥ים[was] sixty

    shishimH8346 →59 times

  • וָשֵֽׁשׁ׃and six

    vasheshH8337 →216 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 35:11

    And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 17:1

      When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

    • Genesis 22:17

      I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

    • Genesis 9:1

      And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    • Exodus 6:3

      I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.

    • Genesis 17:5–7

      No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

  • Through

    Exodus 1:5

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

    it leads to

    • 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.

  • Through

    Judges 8:30

    Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.

    it leads to

    • Judges 9:5

      He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

    • Judges 9:2

      “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh…

About Genesis

Jacob Goes to Egypt — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jacob Goes to Egypt — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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