SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:14
Y enviando Jos, hizo venir a su padre Jacob, y a toda su parentela, en nmero de setenta y cinco personas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 7:14
Verse 14. Threescore and fifteen souls.] There are several difficulties here, which it is hoped the reader will find satisfactorily removed in the note on Gen. xlvi. 20. It is well known that in Gen. xlvi. 27, and in Deut. x. 22, their number is said to be threescore and ten; but Stephen quotes from the Septuagint, which adds five persons to the account which are not in the Hebrew text, Machir, Gilead, Sutelaam, Taham, and Edem; but see the note referred to above.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. Then sent Joseph , etc.] Gifts and presents to his father, and wagons, to fetch down him and his family into Egypt, ( Genesis 45:21,23). and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls ; which seems to disagree with the account of Moses, who says, that all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten, ( Genesis 46:27). But there is no contradiction; Moses and Stephen are speaking of different things; Moses speaks of the seed of Jacob, which came out of his loins, who came into Egypt, and so excludes his sons wives; Stephen speaks of Jacob and all his kindred, among whom his sons wives must be reckoned, whom Joseph called to him: according to Mosess account, the persons that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, and so exclusive of his sons wives, were threescore and six; to which if we add Jacob himself, and Joseph who was before in Egypt, and who might be truly said to come into it, and his two sons that were born there, who came thither in his loins, as others in the account may be said to do, who were not yet born, when Jacob went down, the total number is threescore and ten, ( Genesis 46:26,27) out of which take the six following persons, Jacob, who was called by Joseph into Egypt, besides the threescore and fifteen souls, and Joseph and his two sons then in Egypt, who could not be said to be called by him, and Hezron and Hamul, the sons of Pharez not yet born, and this will reduce Mosess number to sixty four; to which sixty four, if you add the eleven wives of Jacobs sons, who were certainly part of the kindred called and invited into Egypt, ( Genesis 45:10,19 45:5) it will make up completely threescore and fifteen persons: or the persons called by Joseph maybe reckoned thus; his eleven brethren and sister Dinah, fifty two brothers children, to which add his brethrens eleven wives, and the amount is threescore and fifteen: so that the Jew has no reason to charge Stephen with an error, as he does; nor was there any need to alter and corrupt the Septuagint version of ( Genesis 45:27) to make it agree with Stephens account; or to add five names in it, in ( Acts 7:20) as Machir, Galaad, Sutalaam, Taam, and Edom, to make up the number seventy five: and it may be observed, that the number is not altered in the version of ( Deuteronomy 10:22) which agrees with the Hebrew for seventy persons.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-16 - Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and value himself on it. The slow steps by which the promise made to Abraha advanced toward performance, plainly show that it had a spiritual meaning, and that the land intended was the heavenly. God owned Josep in his troubles, and was with him by the power of his Spirit, both of his own mind by giving him comfort, and on those he was concerned with by giving him favour in their eyes. Stephen reminds the Jews of their mean beginning as a check to priding themselves in the glories of tha nation. Likewise of the wickedness of the patriarchs of their tribes in envying their brother Joseph; and the same spirit was still workin in them toward Christ and his ministers. The faith of the patriarchs in desiring to be buried in the land of Canaan, plainly showed they ha regard to the heavenly country. It is well to recur to the first ris of usages, or sentiments, which have been perverted. Would we know the nature and effects of justifying faith, we should study the characte of the father of the faithful. His calling shows the power and freenes of Divine grace, and the nature of conversion. Here also we see tha outward forms and distinctions are as nothing, compared with separatio from the world, and devotedness to God.
Greek Textus Receptus
αποστειλας 649 5660 V-AAP-NSM δε 1161 CONJ ιωσηφ 2501 N-PRI μετεκαλεσατο 3333 5668 V-AMI-3S τον 3588 T-ASM πατερα 3962 N-ASM αυτου 846 P-GSM ιακωβ 2384 N-PRI και 2532 CONJ πασαν 3956 A-ASF την 3588 T-ASF συγγενειαν 4772 N-ASF αυτου 846 P-GSM εν 1722 PREP ψυχαις 5590 N-DPF εβδομηκοντα 1440 A-NUI πεντε 4002 A-NUI
Vincent's NT Word Studies
14. Threescore and fifteen. Lit., "in (en) threescore and fifteen;" the idiom expressing the sum in which all the individuals were included.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
7:14 {Three-score and fifteen souls} (en yucais hebdomekonta pente). Stephen follows the LXX which counts some grandchildren of Joseph and so makes it 75 whereas #Ge 46:26 has 66 and qen the next verse makes it #70 including Jacob and Joseph with his two sons. The use of en means "consisting in."
