Exodus 1:5
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
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- Deuteronomy 10:22 Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Genesis 46:26–27 All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt— his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons— numbered sixty-six persons. And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
- Judges 8:30 Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.