Acts 7:14

Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.

1. All the family of Jacob - sons and a daughter, their spouses, all their children, and all the relatives.

2. The number is a problem. Here it says 75 people.

1. Genesis 46:26-34 souls came with Jacob to Egypt

2. Genesis 46:27-34 souls counting Joseph and family, already in Egypt

3. Exodus 1:5 - all the souls from Jacob are 70

4. Al bert Barnes says, It is evident that Stephen has followed the account which is given by the Septuagint. In Genesis 46:27, that version reads, "But the sons of Joseph who were with him in Egypt were nine souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob which came with Jacob into Egypt were seventy-five souls."

5. B. W. Johnson's People's New Testament with Notes adds, But the Septuagint Version, quoted almost invariably by Christ and the apostles, as well as by Stephen here, after giving the sixty-six, adds: "And the sons of Joseph born in Egypt were nine souls." The nine, added to the sixty-six, make the seventy-five that Stephen gives. Why this clause was omitted from the Hebrew text, followed by the Common Version, is unknown. Stephen simply follows the text received by Christ, the apostles, and the Jews generally.