Acts 7:11-21

11 "Now ¹a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

12 "But ²when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

13 "On the second visit ³Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and ⁴Joseph's family was disclosed to Pharaoh.

14 "Then ⁵Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, ⁶seventy-five * ⁷persons in all.

15 "And ⁸Jacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died.

16 "From there they were removed to ⁹Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

17 "But as the ¹⁰time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, ¹¹the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

18 until ¹²THERE AROSE ANOTHER KING OVER EGYPT WHO KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JOSEPH.

19 "It was he who took ¹³shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would ¹⁴expose * their infants and they would not survive.

20 "It was at this time that ¹⁵Moses was born; and he was lovely in the sight of God, and he was nurtured three months in his father's home.

21 "And after he had been set outside, ¹⁶Pharaoh's daughter took him away and nurtured him as her own son.

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Cross References 16

1. Genesis 41:54; Genesis 42:5
2. Genesis 42:2
3. Genesis 45:1-4
4. Genesis 45:16
5. Gen 45:9, 10, 17, 18
6. Genesis 46:26; Exodus 1:5; Deuteronomy 10:22
7. Acts 2:41
8. Genesis 46:1-7; Genesis 49:33; Exodus 1:6
9. Genesis 23:16; Genesis 33:19; Genesis 50:13; Joshua 24:32
10. Genesis 15:13
11. Exodus 1:7
12. Exodus 1:8
13. Exodus 1:10f, 16f
14. Exodus 1:22
15. Exodus 2:2; Hebrews 11:23
16. Ex 2:5f, 10

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "were not finding"
[b]. Or "was made known"
[c]. Lit "souls"
[d]. Gr "Sychem"
[e]. Gr "Emmor"
[f]. Gr "Sychem"
[g]. Or "put out to die"
[h]. Lit "to God"
[i]. Or "adopted him"

Acts 7:11-21

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