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Acts 7
⁸ Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.
⁹ "And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him
¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
¹¹ Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.
¹² But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
¹³ And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh.
¹⁴ Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.
¹⁵ So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
¹⁶ And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.
¹⁷ "But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt
¹⁸ till another king arose who did not know Joseph.