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How Many Children of Israel Went into Egypt?
by Farrell Till

The Skeptical Review Online - How Many Children Of Israel Went To Egypt - Author Farrell Till

In Part One of this series, I explicated a chronological discrepancy concerning how much time passed for Joseph from his betrayal by his brothers (Gen. 37:2) till his reunion with them (Gen. 45:6) as opposed to how much time had passed for his brother Judah (Gen. 38:1-39) during the same interval. That discrepancy raised the question of how many children of Israel actually went into Egypt with the extended family of Jacob [Israel].

Genesis 46:26-27 says that 70 went into Egypt.
26 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. 27 The children of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

Acts 7:14, however, in a speech that Stephen made before the the Sanhedrin court, said that 75 had entered Egypt.

13 On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. 14 Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all; 15 so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors....

Can You see how this may not be a discrepancy?

26 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.

27 all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

This means that there are 4 people who are unaccounted for that were not Jacob's own offspring and who entered into Egypt with Jacob.

could there have been handmaidens?


26 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.

could there have been wives?


The lengthy discourse of how the discrepancy is seen by many which Farrell Till had to write on, could have been easily remedied by just reading what was written in the Holy Bible. In other words, there is NO discrepancy.

 

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And I say this with an assurance. If someone is out there trying to show 'discrepancies' of the Holy Bible without having a sincere desire to remedy those discrepancies, they will never come into any Truth of the Word of God.

 

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Proverbs 16:27

"An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire."

If a person is only out to find the faults, he will never see the truths.

 

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So Jacob had 70 of his own household in Egypt while he lived in Egypt. Joseph and his sons, also belonging to the house of Jacob, also entered into Egypt, not with Jacob but before Jacob. "all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy." And these 70 persons had 30 years of freedom, besides Joseph who had more years in Egypt as free. After of which, the children were put to slavery.

 

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"And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years." Genesis 47:27-28

13 years of Freedom for the Israelites after the passing of Jacob into sleep.

 

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And out of 70 persons, Egypt had to order the deaths of every new born male Hebrew child.

Genesis 1:28

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

replenish =
4390 ū-mil-’ū וּמִלְא֥וּ

ū·mil·’ū = accomplish, confirm, consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfill,
1 be full, usually with accusative material:
literally subject houses

Definition
to be full, to fill

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful (in good fruits), and multiply(increase in your good fruits), and replenish (have dominion) the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion..."

Galatians 5:22-23
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." (multiplication)

 

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"Everything is permissible," but not everything is helpful. "Everything is permissible," but not everything builds up."

HCSB

In the words of Solomon,
Ecclesiastes 12
1Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain...

13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.