Gen. 46:27

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threescore and ten.Threescore and six were before mentioned, (Gen 46:26,) so that Joseph and his two sons, together with Jacob himself, complete the seventy persons here enumerated; and the number in Gen 46:15, 18, 22, and 25 amount to that number.

The addition of five persons in the LXX. in Gen 46:20, was either the cause or the consequence of another difference here; for in that version the number is seventy-five Gen 46:15, 18, 22, 25. Exod 1:5; Exod 24:1; Deut 10:22; Acts 7:14