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

The LORD said to Moses, "Come up the mountain to me, you and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the leaders of Israel; and while you are still some distance away, bow down in worship.

When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.