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All his kindred; his affinity, and not consanguinity only, which may be the reason why, though in Gen_46:26 it is said, that all
the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt were threescore and six, ( it being then added, they were all such as came out of his loins), yet it is said they were seventy persons, Gen_46:27, Jacob, Joseph, and Joseph’s two sons (who were also of the promised seed) being added unto the number. In this account of St. Stephen, his sons’ wives might be added, which make up seventy-five. There are other accounts of this difference; but it is not of any consequence as to faith and holy living, which are only necessary unto salvation: the wonderful increase to so many hundred thousands of men, besides children, spoken of, Exo_12:37, notwithstanding the barbarous cruelty of the Egyptians, is to be admired.
Souls; the nobler and better part, by which they are numbered, and according unto which they are esteemed by God.