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Acts 7:14

New Century Version

Then Joseph sent messengers to invite Jacob, his father, to come to Egypt along with all his relatives (seventy-five persons altogether).

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So tell my father about how powerful I have become in Egypt. Tell him about everything you have seen. Now hurry and bring him back to me.”

Judah’s sons were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). Perez’s sons were Hezron and Hamul.

Then his father Israel came to Egypt; Jacob lived in Egypt.

There was a total of seventy people who were descendants of Jacob. Jacob’s son Joseph was already in Egypt.

Then those people who accepted what Peter said were baptized. About three thousand people were added to the number of believers that day.

There were only seventy of your ancestors when they went down to Egypt, and now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky.