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Acts 7:14

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

KJV

ἀποστείλας δὲ Ἰωσὴφ μετεκαλέσατο Ἰακὼβ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν συγγένειαν ἐν ψυχαῖς ἑβδομήκοντα πέντε,

Greek NT

Mittens autem Joseph, accersivit Jacob patrem suum et omnem cognationem suam, in animabus septuaginta quinque.

Vulgate

And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

ASV

And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μετακαλέω
metakaleo
verb · 4×
πέντε
pente
adjective · 38×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
συγγένεια
suggeneia
noun · 3×
ψυχή
psuche
noun · 102×
ἀποστέλλω
apostello
verb · 131×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἑβδομήκοντα
ebdomekonta
adjective · 5×
Ἰακώβ
iakob
noun · 27×
Ἰωσήφ
ioseph
noun · 35×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: Ἰακὼβ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἰακὼβ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ | RP: τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ Ἰακὼβ
  • Ἰακὼβ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦSBLGNT
  • Ἰακὼβ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ ἸακὼβRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 27:37 — And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
  • Deut 10:22 — 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.
  • Deut 10:22 — 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.
  • Exod 1:5 — And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
  • Gen 26:27 — And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
  • Gen 45:13 — And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
  • Gen 46:26 — 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;
  • Gen 46:27 — 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.
  • Isa 52:4 — For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.