Acts 7:14

Christian Standard Bible ®

Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five people in all,

Parallel Translations

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.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought and all his kynne thre score and xv. soules.

Hebrew Names Version
Yosef sent, and summoned Ya`akov, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

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]

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.

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).

Update Bible Version
And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Joseph sent, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, seventy five souls.

English Standard Version
And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.

World English Bible
Joseph sent, and called Jacob, his father, to him, and all his relatives, 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.

English Revised 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.

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

American Standard 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.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yosef then sent for his father Ya‘akov and all his relatives, seventy-five people.

Darby Translation
And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.

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.

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;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kindred, euen threescore and fifteene soules.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Joseph sent and brought his father Jacob and all his family, seventy-five souls in number.

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.

Revised Standard Version
And Joseph sent and called to him Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five souls;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sent Ioseph, and caused his father to be brought, and all his kynne, three score and fyfteene soules.

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.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls --

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.

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.

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

¹“Are these things true?” the high priest asked. ²“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, ³and said to him: Leave your country and relatives, and come to the land that I will show you. ⁴“Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living. ⁵He didn’t give him an inheritance in it—not even a foot of ground—but he promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless. ⁶God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years. ⁷I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, God said. After this, they will come out and worship me in this place. ⁸And so he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. ⁹“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him ¹⁰and rescued him out of all his troubles. He gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over his whole 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
You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

Genesis 7:3
and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive throughout the earth.

Genesis 7:8
From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,

Genesis 7:9
two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him.

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.