Genesis 46:27 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 46:27

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

BSB

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ASV

and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

KJV

And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis (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.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְנֵ֥י	u.ve.Nei	and [the] sons of	H1121 →
יוֹסֵ֛ף	yo.Sef	Joseph	H3130 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
יֻלַּד־	yu.lad-	it was born	H3205 →
ל֥וֹ	lo	to him
בְמִצְרַ֖יִם	ve.mitz.Ra.yim	in Egypt	H4714 →
נֶ֣פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	[were] person[s]	H5315 →
שְׁנָ֑יִם	she.Na.yim	two	H8147 →
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
הַנֶּ֧פֶשׁ	ha.Ne.fesh	<the> person	H5315 →
לְבֵֽית־	le.veit-	of [the] household of	H1004 →
יַעֲקֹ֛ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
הַבָּ֥אָה	ha.Ba.'ah	that it went	H935 →
מִצְרַ֖יְמָה	mitz.Ray.mah	Egypt towards	H4714 →
שִׁבְעִֽים׃ פ	shiv.'Im	[was] seventy	H7657 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 1:5
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
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.
leads to
- Exodus 1:5
  The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Deuteronomy 1:10
  The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Nehemiah 9:23
  You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Through
Acts 7:14
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
leads to
- Genesis 46:26–27
  All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 24:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
leads to
- Numbers 11:16
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them…
- Exodus 6:23
  And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

About Genesis

Jacob Goes to Egypt — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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