Genesis 46:26

New American Bible - revised edition

Jacob’s people who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons in all.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have brought trouble upon me by making me repugnant to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have so few men that, if these people unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be wiped out.”

Genesis 35:11

Then God said to him: I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will stem from you, and kings will issue from your loins.

Exodus 1:1

These are the names of the sons of Israel who, accompanied by their households, entered into Egypt with Jacob:

Exodus 1:5

The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.

Acts 7:14

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

Deuteronomy 10:22

Seventy strong your ancestors went down to Egypt, and now the Lord, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Judges 8:30

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