All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls [were] threescore and six;
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Les personnes qui vinrent avec Jacob en Egypte, et qui étaient issues de lui, étaient au nombre de soixante-six en tout, sans compter les femmes des fils de Jacob.
KJV
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls [were] threescore and six;
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
bjection 1: It would seem that the intellectual soul is produced from the semen. For it is written ( Gn. 46:26 ): "All the souls that came out of [Jacob's] thigh, sixty-six." But nothing is produced from the thigh of a man, except from the semen. Therefore the intellectual soul i…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
los. Femur, progenies, ut in Genesi: «Animae, quae exierunt de femore Jacob [Note: [Col. 0923] 11 Gen. XLVI, 26.] ,» id est, homines de progenie Jacob. Femur, carnis delectatio, ut in Exodo: «Ponat vir gladium suum [Note: [Col. 0923] 12 Exod. XXXII, 27.] ,» id est, per rigo…
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