1:1–12:36 This section recounts Israel’s final years in Egypt before the Exodus. 1:1–5 Genesis also reported the names and the number of Jacob’s descendants who came to Egypt (Gen. 35:23; 46:8–27). 1:5 seventy persons. Cf. Gen. 46:8–27. Acts 7:14 reports 75 with the addition of 5 relatives of Joseph included in the LXX, but not the Heb. text. 1:6–8 This summary of a lengthy period of time moves the record from the death of Joseph (ca. 1804 B.C.), the last recorded event in Genesis, to the radical