All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
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All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
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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;
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All the souls belonging to Jacob that came into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six.
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Passages linked to Genesis 46:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 1:5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
- Genesis 35:11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
- Judges 8:30 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, thighs.
Hebrew, thighs.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob…
Gen 46:26 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;
Ver. 26. Which came out of his loins.] Heb., e femore eius. A modest description of generation, by the instrumental and material cause thereof. And because it is said, that so many souls came out of Jacob’s body, Augustine {a} moves the question here, whether souls also are not begotten, as well as bodies? And when the learned father demurred, and would not presently determine the point, a rash young man, one Vincentius Victor, as Chemnitius relates it, boldly censured the father’s unresolvedness, and vaunted that he would undertake to prove by demonstration that souls are created, de novo, by God; for which peremptory rashness the father returned the young man a sober reprehension. But souls are doubtless here put for persons, which the Latins call capita.
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{a} Annon igitur animae propagentur ex traduce; argumenta post triduum demum solvo. - Melancthon.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Loins, Heb. thigh, which is here put for the…
Loins, Heb. thigh, which is here put for the secret parts between the thighs, which are called sometimes the feet, as Gen 49:10; Deu 28:57; Eze 16:25, for the like reason, because they are between the feet. From this eastern manner of speech came that passage in the Greek fables, concerning Bacchus being born out of Jupiter’s thigh.
Threescore and six; so many they are, excluding Jacob, as the common parent, and Joseph and his two sons, as being in Egypt before Jacob’s coming thither; which four being included they make up seventy, as it is Gen 46:27.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Israel said unto Joseph,.... He broke silence first:
And Israel said unto Joseph,.... He broke silence first:
now let me die, since I have seen thy face; not that he was impatient to die, and not desirous to live any longer; for it could not but yield pleasure to him, and make the remainder of his life more comfortable to live with such a son, his darling, and now in so much honour and grandeur; but this he said to express his great satisfaction at the sight of him, that he could now be content to die, having all his heart could wish for, an interview with his beloved son:
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because thou art yet alive; whom he had looked upon as dead, and the receiving him now was as life from the dead, and could not but fill him with the greatest joy, see Luk 15:23; Jacob lived after this seventeen years, Gen 47:28.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sixty-six; not including Jacob, Joseph, and his two children,…
Sixty-six; not including Jacob, Joseph, and his two children, who make up 70, ver. 27. (Deuteronomy x. 22.) The Septuagint taking in Joseph’s grandchildren, read 75; in which they are followed by St. Stephen, Acts. vii. 14. See St. Jerome q. Heb. (Calmet) --- St. Augustine cannot account for these grand-children and great grand-children of Joseph being mentioned as coming with Jacob into Egypt, since some of them were not born during his life-time. He suspects some hidden mystery. (Worthington) See ver. 7. --- Some think St. Stephen excludes Jacob, Joseph, and his sons; and included the 64 men, with 11 wives. (Du Hamel)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. souls that came with Jacob] The rendering of…
26. souls that came with Jacob] The rendering of the margin, souls belonging to Jacob that came, is preferable. “With Jacob” (as LXX and Lat.) follows Gen_46:7, but does not translate the Heb.
threescore and six] These and the words in the following verse before “threescore and ten” have the appearance of a gloss. In the preceding list the sons and daughters of Leah were thirty-three (Gen_46:15), the sons of Zilpah sixteen (Gen_46:18), the sons of Rachel fourteen (Gen_46:22), and the sons of Bilhah seven (Gen_46:25); the total of these is seventy. The number, therefore, of sixty-six must be regarded as the result of deducting four persons, presumably Er and Onan, and the “two souls born to Joseph in Egypt” (Gen_46:20).
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Note that “sixty-six” is just double that of Leah’s children, thirty-three. Another computation, excluding Er and Onan, and including Dinah, would make Leah’s children “thirty-two,” just double Zilpah’s.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) All the souls were threescore and six.—This total…
(26) All the souls were threescore and six.—This total is obtained by omitting Jacob, Joseph, and Joseph’s two sons. If we include these, the whole number becomes threescore and ten, as in Gen_46:27. In the LXX. the names of five grandsons are added to Gen_46:20, and thus the total is made seventy-five, as quoted by St. Stephen in Act_7:14.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 26, 27. All the souls that came with…
Vers. 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. According to the LXX the number of Joseph"s sons was nine; and the number of those who came with Jacob into Egypt seventy five, a number adopted by Stephen. (Act_7:14) The apparent confusion in these different numbers, sixty-six, seventy, seventy-five, will disappear if it be observed that the first takes no account of Jacob, Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim, while they are as palpably included in the second computation, and that Stephen simply adds to the seventy of ver. 27 the five grandsons of Joseph who are mentioned in the Septuagint version, from which he quoted, or to the sixty-six of ver. 26 the nine mentioned above, consisting of Jacob, Joseph, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Joseph"s five grandsons, thus making seventy five in all. There is thus no irreconcilable contradiction between the Hebrew historian and the Christian orator.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain All the souls
All the souls
(Cf) Gen 46:27. A discrepancy has been imagined. The "souls" that came with Jacob" were 66. The "souls of the house of Jacob" Gen 46:27 i.e. the entire Jacobean family) were 70, viz. the 66 which came with Jacob, Joseph and his two sons, already in Egypt=69; Jacob himself=70. (See Scofield "Act 7:14").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 "66" (See: Numbers)
sixty-six
"66" (See: Numbers)
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seventy
"70" (See: Numbers)
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Egypt
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Joseph (OT)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 46:26 The total number . . . was sixty-six:…
46:26 The total number . . . was sixty-six: This is the number of those who traveled with Jacob to Egypt, excluding his sons’ wives, the servants, and others attached to the household. It also omits Joseph, Ephraim, Manasseh, and Jacob.
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