And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, [were] threescore and ten.
Ver. 27. Threescore and ten.] St Stephen reckons seventy-five. Act 7:14 And so the Greek translateth here, which Stephen seemeth to follow; as doth likewise St Luke for Cainan; Luk 3:36 that translation being then received, and they not willing to alter it. The Jews say, that these seventy souls were as much as all the seventy nations of the world. And Moses tells them, that whereas their fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, now Jehovah had made them "as the stars of heaven for multitude." Deu 10:22