Acts 7:14
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Acts 7:14 in other translations
| BSB | Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all. |
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| WEB | Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. |
| ASV | And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. |
| YLT | and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred--with seventy and five souls-- |
| DARBY | And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all his kindred, seventy-five souls. |
| BBE | Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons. |
| Webster | Then Joseph sent, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, seventy five souls. |
What does Acts 7:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 7:9-16
9-16. the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him--Here Stephen gives his first example of Israel's opposition to God's purposes, in spite of which and by means of which those purposes were accomplished.
Barnes' Notes
Threescore and fifteen souls. Seventy-five persons. There has been much perplexity felt in the explanation of this pas sage. In Gen 46:26, Ex 1:5, De 10:22, it is expressly said that the number which went down to Egypt consisted of but seventy persons. The question is, in what way these accounts can be reconciled? It is evident that Stephen has followed the account which is given by the Septuagint. In Gen 46:27, that version reads, "But the sons of Joseph who were with him in Egypt, were nine souls; all the souls of-the house of Jacob which came with Jacob into Egypt, were seventy-five souls." This number is made out by adding these nine souls to the sixty-six mentioned in Gen 46:26. The difference between the Septuagint and Moses is, that the former mentions five descendants of Joseph who are not recorded by the latter. The names of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh are recorded in 1Chr 7:14-21. Their names were Ashriel, Machir, Zelophehad, Peresh, sons of Manasseh; and Shuthelah, son of Ephraim. Why the Septuagint inserted these, it may not be easy to see. But such was evidently the fact; and the fact accords accurately with the historic record, though Moses did not insert their names. The solution of difficulties in regard to chronology is always difficult; and what might be entirely apparent to a Jew, in the time of Stephen, may be wholly inexplicable to us.
(m) "all his kindred" Gen 46:27, De 10:22
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 7:1-16
Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values himself on it. The slow steps by which the promise made to Abraham advanced toward performance, plainly show that it had a spiritual meaning, and that the land intended was the heavenly. God owned Joseph in his troubles, and was with him by the power of his Spirit, both on his own…
Acts 7:14 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 7:14
- Genesis 46:26-27
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six; And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
- Deuteronomy 10:22
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
- Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
- Genesis 45:9-11
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
- 1 Chronicles 2:5-6
The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul. And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
- Psalms 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
- Genesis 46:12
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
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Context
- Acts 7:13
And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
- Acts 7:14
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
- Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Acts 7:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y enviando José, hizo venir á su padre Jacob, y á toda su parentela, en número de setenta y cinco personas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Joseph envoya chercher son père Jacob et toute sa parenté, en tout 75 âmes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Joseph aber sandte hin und ließ seinen Vater Jakob holen und die ganze Verwandtschaft, an fünfundsiebzig Seelen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Mittens autem Joseph, accersivit Jacob patrem suum et omnem cognationem suam, in animabus septuaginta quinque. |