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Acts counts seventy-five of Jacob’s relatives going down to Egypt, following the Greek Septuagint and not the Hebrew Bible. Jubilees tries to harmonize the conflicting traditions, listing seventy and noting five who died in Egypt before they married.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Jubilees 44:33
Pseudepigrapha
32 All those of Rachel were 26. 33 All the persons of Jacob who entered Egypt were 70 persons. So all of these sons and grandsons of his were 70, and five who died in Egypt before they married. They had no children. 34 Judah’s two sons, Er and Onan, had died in the land of Canaan. They had no children. The sons of Israel buried those who died, and they were placed among the 70 nations.
Acts 7:14
New Testament
13 On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh. 14 So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all. 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
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Notes and References
... Scharlemann, Stephen, 41, believes that this figure came to Stephen through Samaritan tradition. Jubilees may know both readings, noting seventy people belonging to Jacob, but explaining that five died before Joseph (Jubilees 44:33; though these may be from the seventy). ...
Keener, Craig S.
Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, Volume 2 (3:1–14:28)
(p. 1369) Baker Academic, 2013
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