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Acts 7:14

"Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   Government;   Israel;   Jacob;   Quotations and Allusions;   Readings, Select;   Thompson Chain Reference - Stephen;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gospel;   Joseph the son of jacob;   Soul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Old Testament in the New Testament, the;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Future State;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jacob;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joseph;   Stephen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Jacob;   Preaching in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jacob;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Call, Called, Calling;   Inspiration and Revelation;   Jacob ;   Joseph ;   Pre-Eminence ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;   Jacob;   Stephen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Joseph;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Jacob (1);   Kindred;   Persecution;   Stephen;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kindred, euen threescore and fifteene soules.
Christian Standard Bible®
Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five people in all,
Hebrew Names Version
Yosef sent, and summoned Ya`akov, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
Darby Translation
And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joseph sent some men to tell Jacob, his father, to come to Egypt. He also invited all his relatives, a total of 75 people.
American Standard Version
And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
Contemporary English Version
Joseph sent for his father and his relatives. In all, there were seventy-five of them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yosef then sent for his father Ya‘akov and all his relatives, seventy-five people.
International Standard Version
Then Joseph sent wordword">[fn] and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him - seventy-five persons in all.Genesis 45:9,27; 46:27; Deuteronomy 10:22;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And Jauseph sent and brought his father Jakub and all his family, and they were in number seventy and five souls.
Murdock Translation
And Joseph sent and brought is father Jacob, and all his family; and they were in number seventy and five souls.
King James Version (1611)
Then sent Ioseph, and called his father Iacob to him, and all his kinred, threescore and fifteeene soules.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sent Ioseph, and caused his father to be brought, and all his kynne, three score and fyfteene soules.
English Revised Version
And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
King James Version
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Lexham English Bible
So Joseph sent and summoned his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five persons in all.
Literal Translation
And sending, Joseph called his father Jacob and all his kindred, "seventy five" "souls" "in all ". Gen. 46:27
New Century Version
Then Joseph sent messengers to invite Jacob, his father, to come to Egypt along with all his relatives (seventy-five persons altogether).
New English Translation
So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.
New King James Version
Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five Exodus 1:5)">[fn] people.
New Living Translation
Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and all his relatives to come to Egypt, seventy-five persons in all.
New Life Bible
Joseph asked his father Jacob and all his family to come. There were seventy-five people in the family.
New Revised Standard
Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Joseph, sending forth, called for Jacob his father, and all the kindred, consisting of seventy-five souls;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Joseph sent and brought his father Jacob and all his family, seventy-five souls in number.
Good News Translation
So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Joseph sent, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, seventy five souls.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then Joseph sending, called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.
Weymouth's New Testament
Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his family, numbering seventy-five persons, to come to him,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Joseph sente, and clepide Jacob, his fadir, and al his kynrede, seuenti and fyue men.
Young's Literal Translation
and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls --
World English Bible
Joseph sent, and called Jacob, his father, to him, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
Revised Standard Version
And Joseph sent and called to him Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five souls;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought and all his kynne thre score and xv. soules.
Update Bible Version
And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Bible in Basic English
Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.
New American Standard Bible
"Then Joseph sent word and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five people in all.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Ioseph sent out, and caused his father and all his kynred to be broughte, eue thre score and fyftene soules.
Mace New Testament (1729)
after this, Joseph sent to invite his father Jacob to come with all his kindred, being threescore and fifteen persons.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Joseph told his brothers to go and fetch the whole family—seventy-five in all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.

Contextual Overview

1Now the high priest asked [Stephen], "Are these charges true?" 2And he answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory [the Shekinah, the radiance of God] appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3and He said to him, 'LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME TO THE LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.' 4"Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God sent him to this country in which you now live. 5"But He did not give him inheritable property, not even enough ground to take a step on, yet He promised that HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM AS A POSSESSION, AND TO HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER HIM. 6"And this is, in effect, what God spoke [to him]: That his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE ALIENS (strangers) IN A FOREIGN LAND, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE ENSLAVED AND MISTREATED FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. 7"'AND I WILL JUDGE ANY NATION TO WHOM THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE,' said God, 'AND AFTER THAT THEY WILL COME OUT AND SERVE ME [in worship] IN THIS PLACE.' 8"And God gave Abraham a covenant [a formal agreement to be strictly observed] of [which] circumcision [was the sign]; and so [under these circumstances] Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [became the father] of Jacob, and Jacob [became the father] of the twelve patriarchs. 9"The [ten elder] patriarchs, overwhelmed with jealousy, sold [their younger brother] Joseph into [slavery in] Egypt; but God was with him, 10and He rescued him from all his suffering, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made Joseph governor over Egypt and over his entire household.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent: Genesis 45:9-11, Psalms 105:23

threescore: Genesis 46:12, Genesis 46:26, Genesis 46:27, Deuteronomy 10:22, 1 Chronicles 2:5, 1 Chronicles 2:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 26:27 - seeing Genesis 45:13 - bring Exodus 1:6 - General Isaiah 52:4 - My people Acts 27:37 - souls

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
"Of every clean animal you shall take with you seven pair, the male and his female, and of animals that are not clean, two each the male and his female;
Genesis 7:3
also of the birds of the air, seven pair, the male and the female, to keep the offspring alive on the surface of the earth.
Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,
Genesis 7:9
they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then sent Joseph,.... Gifts and presents to his father, and wagons, to fetch down him and his family into Egypt, Genesis 45:21.

and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls; which seems to disagree with the account of Moses, who says, that "all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten", Genesis 46:27. But there is no contradiction; Moses and Stephen are speaking of different things; Moses speaks of the seed of Jacob, which came out of his loins, who came into Egypt, and so excludes his sons' wives; Stephen speaks of Jacob and all his kindred, among whom his sons' wives must be reckoned, whom Joseph called to him: according to Moses's account, the persons that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, and so exclusive of his sons' wives, were threescore and six; to which if we add Jacob himself, and Joseph who was before in Egypt, and who might be truly said to come into it, and his two sons that were born there, who came thither in his loins, as others in the account may be said to do, who were not yet born, when Jacob went down, the total number is threescore and ten, Genesis 46:26 out of which take the six following persons, Jacob, who was called by Joseph into Egypt, besides the threescore and fifteen souls, and Joseph and his two sons then in Egypt, who could not be said to be called by him, and Hezron and Hamul, the sons of Pharez not yet born, and this will reduce Moses's number to sixty four; to which sixty four, if you add the eleven wives of Jacob's sons, who were certainly part of the kindred called and invited into Egypt, Genesis 45:10 it will make up completely threescore and fifteen persons: or the persons called by Joseph maybe reckoned thus; his eleven brethren and sister Dinah, fifty two brother's children, to which add his brethren's eleven wives, and the amount is threescore and fifteen: so that the Jew w has no reason to charge Stephen with an error, as he does; nor was there any need to alter and corrupt the Septuagint version of Genesis 45:27 to make it agree with Stephen's account; or to add five names in it, in Acts 7:20 as Machir, Galaad, Sutalaam, Taam, and Edom, to make up the number seventy five: and it may be observed, that the number is not altered in the version of Deuteronomy 10:22 which agrees with the Hebrew for seventy persons.

w R. Isaac Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 63. p. 450.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All his kindred - His father and family, Genesis 45:17-28; Genesis 46:1-26.

Threescore and fifteen souls - Seventy-five persons. There has been much perplexity felt in the explanation of this passage. In Genesis 46:26, Exodus 1:5, and Deuteronomy 10:22, it is expressly said that the number which went down to Egypt consisted of 70 persons. The question is, in what way these accounts can be reconciled? It is evident that Stephen has followed the account which is given by the Septuagint. In Genesis 46:27, that version reads, “But the sons of Joseph who were with him in Egypt were nine souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob which came with Jacob into Egypt were seventy-five souls.” This number is made out by adding these nine souls to the 66 mentioned in Genesis 46:26. The difference between the Septuagint and Moses is, that the former mentions five descendants of Joseph who are not recorded by the latter. The “names” of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh are recorded in 1 Chronicles 7:14-21. Their names were Ashriel, Machir, Zelophehad, Peresh, sons of Manasseh; and Shuthelah, son of Ephraim. Why the Septuagint inserted these, it may not be easy to see. But such was evidently the fact; and the fact accords accurately with the historic record, though Moses did not insert their names. The solution of difficulties in regard to chronology is always difficult; and what might be entirely apparent to a Jew in the time of Stephen, may be wholly inexplicable to us.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 7:14. Threescore and fifteen souls. — There are several difficulties here, which it is hoped the reader will find satisfactorily removed in the note on Genesis 46:20. It is well known that in Genesis 46:27, and in Deuteronomy 10:22, their number is said to be threescore and ten; but Stephen quotes from the Septuagint, which adds five persons to the account which are not in the Hebrew text, Machir, Gilead, Sutelaam, Taham, and Edem; but see the note referred to above.


 
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