14Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; …
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul. …
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous words against Moses and God; for he spoke against this holy place and the law. Now here, I. The high priest calls upon him to answer for himself, Acts 7:1. He was president, and, as such, the mouth of…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.