VERSE STUDY • KJV

Exodus 1:5

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].

Read it in 5 translations

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.

And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt.

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].

6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

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