Exodus 1:5 meaning and explanation
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
Exodus 1:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Exodus opens by counting Jacob's family as they settled in Egypt: seventy persons in all, a number that includes Joseph, who was already there. The list of names in verses 2 to 4 signals that this is a family, not yet a nation, and the number seventy echoes the table of nations in Genesis 10, where seventy peoples fill the earth.
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