Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 46:8

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 46:8 - 46:8

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 46:8 - 46:8

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46:1 - 46:1
46:2 - 46:2
46:3 - 46:3
46:4 - 46:4
46:5 - 46:5
46:6 - 46:6
46:7 - 46:7
46:8 - 46:8
46:28 - 46:28
46:29 - 46:29
46:31 - 46:31

all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten - Strictly speaking, there were only sixty-six went to Egypt; but to these add Joseph and his two sons, and Jacob the head of the clan, and the whole number amounts to seventy. In the speech of Stephen (Act 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch 7:14-20), born in Egypt, the two accounts coincide.