Acts 7:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
  • Gen 46:26-27 : 26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons. 27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.
  • Exod 1:5 : 5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
  • Gen 45:9-9 : 9 Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away: 10 The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have: 11 And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.
  • Gen 46:12 : 12 And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
  • 1 Chr 2:5-6 : 5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 6 And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them.
  • Ps 105:23 : 23 Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.

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  • Exod 1:5-6
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    5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

    6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

  • Gen 46:26-28
    3 verses
    81%

    26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

    27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

    28 Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

  • 15 And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

  • Acts 7:12-13
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    80%

    12 But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

    13 And the second time his brothers had a meeting with Joseph, and Pharaoh had knowledge of Joseph's family.

  • 25 So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.

  • Gen 50:14-16
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    14 And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

    15 Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

    16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

  • 31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

  • 5 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle.

  • Gen 47:1-2
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    1 Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.

    2 And he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh.

  • Gen 50:7-8
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    7 So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

    8 And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

  • 17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;

  • 7 Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.

  • Gen 46:6-7
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    6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:

    7 His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

  • 12 And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

  • 7 Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

  • 2 These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

  • 27 And they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said to them; and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent for them, his spirit came back to him:

  • 22 Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

  • 12 Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

  • 4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

  • 17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:

  • 28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

  • 13 Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

  • 1 Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • 3 So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

  • 9 Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:

  • 29 So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,