Seventy - See Genesis 46:27. The object of the writer in this introductory statement is to give a complete list of the heads of separate fam…

All the souls ... were seventy souls. . The number is made up as follows:

• Jacob himself: 1
• His sons…

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls
"Souls" are put for persons; of …

During more than 200 years, while Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived at liberty, the Hebrews increased slowly; only about seventy persons went down in…