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What does Exodus 1:5 mean?

All the people who came from Jacob’s family, not counting Joseph and his sons, totaled seventy. Exodus 1:5 - Modern Text Bible

(The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants who came to Egypt was seventy, not including Joseph and his children who were already there.)