Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus 1:5 in other translations
| BSB | The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt. |
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| WEB | All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. |
| ASV | And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already. |
| YLT | And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt. |
| DARBY | And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt. |
| BBE | All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them. |
| Webster | And all the souls that descended from Jacob, were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. |
What does Exodus 1:5 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 1:1-7
The men-children destroyed. (15-22) Verses 1-7 During more than 200 years, while Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived at liberty, the Hebrews increased slowly; only about seventy persons went down into Egypt. There, in about the same number of years, though under cruel bondage, they became a large nation. This wonderful increase was according to the promise long before made unto the fathers. Though the performance of…
Exodus 1:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 1:5
- 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.
- 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.
- Judges 8:30
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
- Exodus 1:20
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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Context
- Exodus 1:4
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
- Exodus 1:6
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Exodus 1:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y todas las almas de los que salieron del muslo de Jacob, fueron setenta. Y José estaba en Egipto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et toutes les âmes issues des reins de Jacob étaient 70 âmes; or Joseph était en Égypte. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es waren aller Seelen, die aus den Lenden Jakobs hervorgegangen waren, siebzig Seelen. Und Joseph war in Ägypten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Erant igitur omnes animæ eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Jacob, septuaginta: Joseph autem in Ægypto erat. |