Genesis 46:27

New Century Version

Joseph had two sons born in Egypt, so the total number in the family of Jacob in Egypt was seventy.

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.”

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.

Exodus 24:1

The Lord told Moses, “You, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel must come up to me and worship me from a distance.

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.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there.