All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you,
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.