Acts 7:14

Then sent Joseph,.... Gifts and presents to his father, and wagons, to fetch down him and his family into Egypt, Gen 45:21.

and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and…

All his kindred - His father and family, Gen 45:17-28; 46:1-26. Threescore and fifteen souls - Seventy-five persons. There has been much perplexity felt in the explanation of this passage. In Gen…

Threescore and fifteen souls - There are several difficulties here, which it is hoped the reader will find satisfactorily removed in the note on Gen 46:20 (note). It is well known that in Gen 46:27,…

Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous…

threescore and fifteen souls This number is taken from the LXX. In the Hebrew (Gen 46:8-27) the number is but seventy including Jacob himself. The five additional names given in the LXX. are Machir…