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Acts 7:13

Verse 13 of 60. The 7th of 28 chapters in Acts, in Acts.

9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him

10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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

13On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.

14Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

15Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers;

16and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

17“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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