Gen 46:26 | NETfull | STEP | All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)

Genesis 46:26

26 All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.) ^{▼▼ Heb “All the people who went with Jacob to Egypt, the ones who came out of his body, apart from the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the people were sixty-six.”} ^{▼▼ The number sixty-six includes the seventy-one descendants (including Dinah) listed in vv. 8–25 minus Er and Onan (deceased), and Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim (already in Egypt).}