The total number of Jacob’s descendants[a] was seventy;[b](A) Joseph was already in Egypt.

Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died.(B) But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous(C) so that the land was filled with them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:5 Lit of people issuing from Jacob’s loins
  2. 1:5 LXX, DSS read 75; Gn 46:27; Ac 7:14

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