Genesis 46:26

New Century Version

So the total number of Jacob’s direct descendants who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused me a lot of trouble. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites who live in the land will hate me. Since there are only a few of us, if they join together to attack us, my people and I will be destroyed.”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Have many children and grow in number as a nation. You will be the ancestor of many nations and kings.

Exodus 1:1

When Jacob went to Egypt, he took his sons, and each son took his own family with him. These are the names of the sons of Israel:

Exodus 1:5

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

Acts 7:14

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

Deuteronomy 10:22

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.

Judges 8:30

He had seventy sons of his own, because he had many wives.