| Genesis 46:26
| All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.
| Sixty-six; not including Jacob, Joseph, and his two children, who make up 70, ver. 27. (Deuteronomy 10:22.) The Septuagint taking in Joseph's grand-children, read 75; in which they are followed by St. Stephen, Acts 7:14. See St. Jerome q. Heb. (Calmet) --- St. Augustine cannot account for these grand-children and great grand-children of Joseph being mentioned as coming with Jacob into Egypt, since some of them were not born during his life-time. He suspects some hidden mystery. (Worthington) See ver. 7. --- Some think St. Stephen excludes Jacob, Joseph, and his sons; and includes the 64 men, with 11 wives. (Du Hamel)
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