Genesis Chapter 46

Detailing the People and its Total Count

Can’t help but notice the discrepancy in line with v. 27 with that of Acts 7:14, from seventy to seventy-five.

Translation? Are numbers ambiguous words? Or it’s just another unforced vivid mistake in the Greek book – New Testament?

“Jacob’s Journey to Joseph”
“Seventy People is the Total Who Came to Egypt”
“Jacob’s Arrives in Egypt”

And He said, “I am God – God of your father. Have no fear of descending to Egypt, for I shall establish you as a great nation there.
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I shall descend with you to Egypt, and I shall also surely bring you up; and Joseph shall place his hand on your eyes.”
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Now these are the names of the children of Israel who were coming to Egypt – Jacob and his children: Jacob’s firstborn, Reuben.
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… All the people of Jacob’s household who came to Egypt – seventy.
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Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, after my having seen your face, because you are still alive.
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1 And Israel and all that was his set out and came to Beer sheba, and he slaughtered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God said to Israel in visions of the night, and He said, “Jacob, Jacob!” And he said, “Here I am.”
3 And He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid of going down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up, and Joseph will place his hand on your eyes.
5 And Jacob arose from Beer sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their young children and their wives, in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.
7 His sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters and his sons’ daughters and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel who were coming to Egypt: Jacob and his sons Jacob’s firstborn was Reuben.
9 And the sons of Reuben were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.
10 And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of the Canaanitess.
11 And the sons of Levi were Gershon, Kehath, and Merari.
12 And the sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. Now Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvvah, Iob, and Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These are the sons of Leah, that she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, and Dinah his daughter. All the souls of his sons and daughters were thirty three.
16 And the sons of Gad were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Briah, and Serah, their sister; and the sons of Briah were Heber and Malkiel.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.
20 And to Joseph were born in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the governor of On, bore to him: Manasseh and Ephraim.
21 And the sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Na’aman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
22 These the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
23 And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob, all the souls were seven.
26 All the souls coming to Egypt with Jacob, those descended from him, excluding the wives of Jacob’s sons, all the souls were sixty six.
27 And Joseph’s sons, who were born to him in Egypt, two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.
28 He sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to direct him to Goshen, and they came to the land of Goshen.
29 And Joseph harnessed his chariot, and he went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and he appeared to him, and he fell on his neck, and he wept on his neck for a long time.
30 And Israel said to Joseph, “I will die this time, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and I will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
32 The men are shepherds, for they were [always] owners of livestock, and their flocks and their cattle and all they have they have brought.’
33 And if it comes to pass that Pharaoh calls you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
34 You shall say, ‘Your servants have been owners of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our ancestors,’ so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”