Acts 7:14
World English Bible
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11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph`s race was revealed to Pharaoh.
14 Joseph sent, and called Jacob, his father, to him, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.
17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God swore to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,