Acts 7:10–18
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,↗
18until there arose a different king who didn’t know Joseph.↗
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