Acts 7:7-17
English Standard Version
Chapter 7
7‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’ 8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9"And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
10and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
11Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.
12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.
13And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph 's family became known to Pharaoh.
14And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
15And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,
16and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
