Atti 7:12

12 Ma avendo Giacobbe udito che in Egitto v’era del grano, vi mandò una prima volta i nostri padri.

Atti 7:12 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:12

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt
Not then growing, or gathering in there, or that was of that year's produce; for the famine was strong in the land of Egypt, as well as in Canaan; but was what had been laid up, and preserved in the seven years of plenty, by the order and care of Joseph; which by some means or another, Jacob had heard of; see ( Genesis 42:1 Genesis 42:2 ) the Jews suggest ^F21, that it was by divine revelation:

he sent out our fathers first;
the first time, or the first year of the famine; or he sent them first, he laid his commands on them, or they had not gone; these were the ten sons of Jacob, and brethren of Joseph, who were sent the first time, for Benjamin stayed with his father: see ( Genesis 42:3 Genesis 42:13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 91. fol. 78. 1, 2.

Atti 7:12 In-Context

10 e lo liberò da tutte le sue distrette, e gli diede grazia e sapienza davanti a Faraone, re d’Egitto, che lo costituì governatore dell’Egitto e di tutta la sua casa.

11 Or sopravvenne una carestia e una gran distretta in tutto l’Egitto e in Canaan; e i nostri padri non trovavano viveri.

12 Ma avendo Giacobbe udito che in Egitto v’era del grano, vi mandò una prima volta i nostri padri.

13 E la seconda volta, Giuseppe fu riconosciuto dai suoi fratelli, e Faraone conobbe di che stirpe fosse Giuseppe.

14 E Giuseppe mandò a chiamare Giacobbe suo padre, e tutto il suo parentado, che era di settantacinque anime.