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Wycliffe Bible

Exodus 1:5

Therfor alle the soules of hem that yeden out of `the hipe of Jacob weren seuenti and fyue.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Genealogy;   Israel;   Jacob;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Humanity, humankind;   Soul;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jacob;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Genealogy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Genealogies;   History;   Thigh;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Number;   Thigh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ex'odus;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Enslavement, the;   Encampment at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the;   Exodus, the Book of;   Genesis;   Merari;   Thigh;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gad;   Hafṭarah;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the souls who came out of the Ya`akov's body were seventy souls, and Yosef was in Mitzrayim already.
King James Version
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Lexham English Bible
And all those who descended from Jacob were seventy individuals, and Joseph was in Egypt.
New Century Version
There was a total of seventy people who were descendants of Jacob. Jacob's son Joseph was already in Egypt.
New English Translation
All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
Amplified Bible
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy people; Joseph was [already] in Egypt.
New American Standard Bible
All the people who descended from Jacob were seventy people, but Joseph was already in Egypt.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.
Legacy Standard Bible
And all the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.
Complete Jewish Bible
All told, there were seventy descendants of Ya‘akov; Yosef was already in Egypt.
Darby Translation
And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt.
Easy-to-Read Version
Another son, Joseph, was already in Egypt. So Jacob's whole family was with him in Egypt—70 descendants in all.
English Standard Version
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
George Lamsa Translation
And all the persons that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy persons; for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Good News Translation
The total number of these people directly descended from Jacob was seventy. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.
Christian Standard Bible®
The total number of Jacob’s descendants was seventy; Joseph was already in Egypt.
Literal Translation
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, Joseph being in Egypt.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And of all the soules that came out of the loynes of Iacob, there were seuentie. As for Ioseph, he was in Egipte all ready.
American Standard Version
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Bible in Basic English
All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the soules that came out of the line of Iacob, were seuentie:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.
King James Version (1611)
And all the soules that came out of the loynes of Iacob, were seuentie soules: for Ioseph was in Egypt already.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls born of Jacob were seventy-five.
English Revised Version
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Berean Standard Bible
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
Young's Literal Translation
And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt.
Update Bible Version
And Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy-five souls.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the souls that descended from Jacob, were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].
World English Bible
All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
New King James Version
All those who were descendants [fn] of Jacob were seventy Acts 7:14).">[fn] persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already).
New Living Translation
In all, Jacob had seventy descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there.
New Life Bible
There were seventy people in Jacob's family. But Joseph was already in Egypt.
New Revised Standard
The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass that all the persons who were descended from Jacob were seventy souls, - but, Joseph, was already in Egypt.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
Revised Standard Version
All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

Contextual Overview

1 These ben the names of the sones of Israel, that entriden into Egipt with Jacob; alle entriden with her housis; 2 Ruben, Symeon, 3 Leuy, Judas, Isachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Neptalim, Gad, and Aser. 5 Therfor alle the soules of hem that yeden out of `the hipe of Jacob weren seuenti and fyue. 6 Forsothe Joseph was in Egipt; and whanne he was deed, and alle hise brithren, and al his kynrede, 7 the sones of Israel encreessiden, and weren multiplied as buriounnyng, and thei weren maad strong greetli, and filliden the lond.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loins: Heb. thigh, Genesis 46:26, Judges 8:30, *marg.

seventy: Exodus 1:20, Genesis 46:26, Genesis 46:27, Deuteronomy 10:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:19 - Rachel Exodus 24:1 - seventy Deuteronomy 26:5 - a few Jeremiah 52:29 - persons Hebrews 7:5 - come

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.
Genesis 1:13
And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the thridde dai.
Genesis 1:19
And the euentid and the morwetid was maad, the fourthe dai.
Genesis 1:23
And the euentid and the morwetid was maad, the fyuethe dai.
Genesis 1:31
And God seiy alle thingis whiche he made, and tho weren ful goode. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the sixte day.
Genesis 8:22
in alle the daies of erthe, seed and ripe corn, coold and heete, somer and wyntir, nyyt and dai, shulen not reste.
Psalms 19:2
The dai tellith out to the dai a word; and the nyyt schewith kunnyng to the nyyt.
Psalms 74:16
The dai is thin, and the niyt is thin; thou madist the moreutid and the sunne.
Psalms 104:20
Thou hast set derknessis, and nyyt is maad; alle beestis of the wode schulen go ther ynne.
Isaiah 45:7
Y am the Lord, and noon other God is; fourmynge liyt, and makynge derknessis, makynge pees, and fourmynge yuel; Y am the Lord, doynge alle these thingis.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls,.... "Souls" are put for persons; of the number seventy, and how reckoned, :-. This was but a small number that went down to Egypt, when compared with that which went out of it; and that it should be compared with it is the design of its being mentioned, see Exodus 12:37:

for Joseph was in Egypt already; and is the reason why he is not reckoned among the sons of Jacob, that came thither with him; though rather it may be better rendered, "with Joseph who was in Egypt" c; for he must be reckoned, and indeed his two sons also, to make up the number seventy; therefore Jonathan rightly supplies it,

"with Joseph and his sons who were in Egypt,''

Exodus 12:37- :.

c ויסף "cum Josepho qui erat in Aegypto", Junius & Tremellius, Ainsworth, Noldius, No. 1197. p. 273. so the Arabic version, Kimchi, and Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seventy - See Genesis 46:27. The object of the writer in this introductory statement is to give a complete list of the heads of separate families at the time of their settlement in Egypt. See the note at Numbers 26:5.


 
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