KJV ORIGINAL
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
All the people who were descended from Jacob totaled seventy people, because Joseph was already living in Egypt.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse is counting the total number of Jacob's descendants who came to Egypt - seventy people in all, not counting Joseph who was already there.
📚 Historical Context
This verse refers to when Jacob (also called Israel) and his family moved to Egypt during a severe famine. Joseph, one of Jacob's twelve sons, had been sold into slavery years earlier but had risen to become a powerful leader in Egypt. When famine struck their homeland, Joseph invited his father and brothers to come live in Egypt where there was food.
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