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25 These are Jacob’s sons by Bilhah, the slave girl whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel [29:29]. There were seven persons in this part of Jacob’s family.

26 So the total number of ·Jacob’s direct descendants [L those who came from the thigh/loins of Jacob] who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons. 27 Joseph had two sons born in Egypt, so the total number in the family of Jacob in Egypt was seventy.

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25 These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah,(A) whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel(B)—seven in all.

26 All those who went to Egypt with Jacob—those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons’ wives—numbered sixty-six persons.(C) 27 With the two sons[a] who had been born to Joseph in Egypt,(D) the members of Jacob’s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy[b] in all.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:27 Hebrew; Septuagint the nine children
  2. Genesis 46:27 Hebrew (see also Exodus 1:5 and note); Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14) seventy-five

25 (A)These were the sons of Bilhah, (B)whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all.

26 (C)All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, (D)besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. 27 And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. (E)All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.

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