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Exodus 1:3-7 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

3. Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,

4. Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

5. The total number of these people directly descended from Jacob was seventy. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.

6. In the course of time Joseph, his brothers, and all the rest of that generation died,

7. but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

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