“²⁶All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. ²⁷And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.”

– Genesis 46:26-27 (NKJV)

“All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. (It is worth noting the emphasis placed upon the importance of God’s covenant promise unto Abraham that is to come through Isaac alone, as the number counted here is solely attached to this anointed bloodline, here impressed upon the reader through the phrase ‘who came from his body‘, Jacob being the very son of Isaac. It is also worth recognising God’s commitment to the full working out of his First Covenant Plan before Our Lord comes, in order to declare faith in bloodline alone apart from Him as worthless in The Second. Nevertheless, let us also pause and ponder a moment upon the significance of the number of people first led into exile for the purpose of the since revealed principle of the clandestine colonisation of the nations by the Kingdom of God, in its prophetically pointing towards the sixty-six books of The Bible, which in turn points to the inclusion of both covenants.) And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons.  (Recognise Ephraim and Manassah here also as symbols of the uniting of the Old and New Covenant . . . ) All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy  (. . . culminating in the number associated with completion, namely 70; I furthermore believe the identity of the final individual that make up this number, apart from Ephraim, Manassah and Joseph – Asenath clearly not included in this number as qualified in the preceding verse – is an invitation to ponder upon The Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ, not unlike His being The Fourth Individual with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace, an image also not wholly incompatible with that of Egypt 😋).”