📖 The Book of Acts: Bible Verses and the Early Church

ACTS 7:12

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. ...

ACTS 7:13

And at the second [time] Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. ...

ACTS 7:14

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. ...

ACTS 7:15

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, ...

ACTS 7:16

And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the father] of Sychem. ...

ACTS 7:17

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, ...

ACTS 7:18

Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. ...

ACTS 7:19

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. ...

ACTS 7:20

In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: ...

ACTS 7:21

And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. ...

ACTS 7:22

And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. ...

ACTS 7:23

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. ...