Genesis 46:26
Good News Translation
The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not including his sons' wives.

New Revised Standard Version
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including the wives of his sons, were sixty-six persons in all.

Contemporary English Version
Sixty-six members of Jacob's family went to Egypt with him, not counting his daughters-in-law.

New American Bible
Jacob’s people who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons in all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.

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All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.

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Genesis 35:11 And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

Judges 8:30 And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.

Context
The Children of Bilhah
25These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven. 26All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.27And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Egypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into Egypt, were seventy.…
Cross References
Acts 7:14
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

Genesis 34:30
And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.

Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

Genesis 46:25
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