Genesis 46:26

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including the wives of his sons, were sixty-six persons in all.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Exodus 1:1

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

Exodus 1:5

The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.

Acts 7:14

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.

Judges 8:30

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