Acts 7:15

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So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.

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  • Gen 49:33 : 33 When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
  • Exod 1:6 : 6 Then Joseph, all his brothers, and that entire generation died.
  • Gen 46:3-7 : 3 God said, 'I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.' 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph will close your eyes with his own hand. 5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and the sons of Israel transported their father Jacob, their children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 They also took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his descendants went to Egypt. 7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, his granddaughters, and all his descendants.
  • Num 20:15 : 15 Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt with seventy people, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 And you shall declare before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner with only a few people. But there he became a great nation, powerful and numerous.'
  • Josh 24:4 : 4 And to Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
  • Heb 11:21-22 : 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, nearing the end of his life, spoke of the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.

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  • Acts 7:14
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    14Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in total.

  • Acts 7:11-12
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    11Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food.

    12When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there for the first time.

  • Gen 45:25
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    25So they went up from Egypt and came to Canaan to their father Jacob.

  • Exod 1:5-6
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    5The total number of Jacob's descendants was seventy, and Joseph was already in Egypt.

    6Then Joseph, all his brothers, and that entire generation died.

  • Acts 7:16-17
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    16Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor at Shechem.

    17As the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise He had made to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt.

  • Gen 47:28
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    28Jacob lived in Egypt for seventeen years, and the years of his life were one hundred and forty-seven in total.

  • Gen 50:13-14
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    13They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

    14After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had gone up with him to bury his father.

  • Gen 46:4-7
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    4I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph will close your eyes with his own hand.

    5Then Jacob left Beersheba, and the sons of Israel transported their father Jacob, their children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

    6They also took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his descendants went to Egypt.

    7He brought with him to Egypt his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, his granddaughters, and all his descendants.

  • Num 20:15
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    15Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

  • Gen 50:7
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    7Joseph went up to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials, the elders of his household, and the elders of the land of Egypt went with him.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8When Jacob went into Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD, and He sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

  • Gen 47:7
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    7Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Gen 47:30
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    30When I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph answered, 'I will do as you say.'

  • Gen 49:33
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    33When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

  • Gen 37:1
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    1Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 50:24
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    24Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.'

  • Gen 50:26
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    26So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

  • Gen 50:5
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    5'My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die. Bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now, please let me go and bury my father, and I will return.'

  • Gen 50:16
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    16So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, 'Before he died, your father gave this command:

  • Heb 11:21
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    21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

  • Gen 45:27
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    27But when they reported all the words Joseph had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

  • Gen 42:29
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    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.