Genesis 46:27

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

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.”

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.

Exodus 24:1

Moses himself was told: Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You shall bow down at a distance.

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.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, your God, “My father was a refugee Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a resident alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.