Genesis 46:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt who were his own offspring, not including the wives of his sons, were sixty-six persons in all.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt–who were his own offspring, not counting the wives of Jacob's sons–were sixty-six persons all told.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ 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;

Common English Bible

²⁶ All of the persons going to Egypt with Jacob—his own children, excluding Jacob’s sons’ wives—totaled 66 persons.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ All the souls who went into Egypt with Jacob and who went out from his thigh, besides the wives of his sons, were sixty-six.

Genesis 46:26 Cross References

Exodus 1:5

The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. (Joseph was already in Egypt.)

Judges 8:30

Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Acts 7:14

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

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Exodus 1:1

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.