Seventy souls Or persons, according to the computation we had, Genesis 46:27, including Joseph and his two sons. This was just the number of the nations by which the earth was peopled, (Genesis 10.,) for when “God separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel,”
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Exodus 1:5
5 And all the souls that came out of the loinsa of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.