Good News TranslationSo Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.
New Revised Standard Version
Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;
Contemporary English Version
Joseph sent for his father and his relatives. In all, there were 75 of them.
New American Bible
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob, inviting him and his whole clan, seventy-five persons;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.
sent.
Genesis 45:9-11 Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come down to me, linger not. . . .
Psalm 105:23 And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.
threescore.
Genesis 46:12,26,27 The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul. . . .
Deuteronomy 10:22 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.
1 Chronicles 2:5,6 And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul. . . .