Genesis 46:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Exodus 1:5

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

Judges 8:30

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

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.

Acts 7:14

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

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.”

Exodus 1:1

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

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.