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Genesis 46:27

Genesis 46:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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

The addition of five persons in the LXX in , was either the cause or the consequence of another difference here; for in that version the number is seventy-five (, , , ).

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