Acts 7:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But when Iacob hearde that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first.

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  • Gen 42:1-9 : 1 And Iacob seing that there was corne in Egypt, sayde vnto his sonnes: why gape ye one vpon another? 2 And he said: behold, I haue hearde that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thyther, and bye vs corne from thence, that we may liue, and not dye. 3 So went Iosephes ten brethren downe to bye corne in Egypt. 4 But Beniamin Iosephes brother, woulde not Iacob sende with his other brethren: for he saide, lest peraduenture destruction come vpon hym. 5 And the sonnes of Irael came to bye corne among other that came: for there was dearth in the lande of Chanaan. 6 And Ioseph was gouernour in the lande, and solde to all the people of the lande. And Iosephes brethren came and bowed them selues with theyr faces downe to the grounde before him. 7 When Ioseph sawe his brethren, he knewe them, and made hym selfe straunge vnto them, & spake roughly vnto them, saying: Whence come ye? They aunswered, out of the lande of Chanaan to bye vitayle. 8 And Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knewe not him. 9 And Ioseph remembred his dreames whiche he dreamed of them, and sayde vnto them: ye are spyes, and to see where the lande is weake, is your commyng. 10 And they sayde vnto hym: nay my Lord, but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come. 11 We are all one mans sonnes, and meane truely, and thy seruauntes are no spyes. 12 And he sayde vnto them agayne: nay but euen to see where the lande is weake, is your comming. 13 And they said: we thy seruauntes are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Chanaan, and beholde, the youngest is this day with our father, & one, no man woteth where he is. 14 And Ioseph saide vnto them: that is it that I spake vnto you when I sayd, ye are spyes. 15 Hereby ye shalbe proued: by the lyfe of Pharao, ye shall not go hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 16 Sende out one of you, whiche may fet your brother, and ye shalbe kept in pryson, that your wordes may be proued whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the lyfe of Pharao, ye are but spyes. 17 And he put them altogether in warde three dayes. 18 And Ioseph said vnto them the thirde day: this do & liue, for I feare God. 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bonde in the house of your pryson: and go ye, carry corne to put away the famine from your housholde. 20 But bryng your youngest brother vnto me, and so shal your wordes be tryed true, and ye shall not dye: & they dyd so. 21 And one sayde to another: we haue veryly sinned agaynst our brother, in that we sawe the anguishe of his soule, when he besought vs, and we woulde not heare him: and therfore is this trouble come vpon vs. 22 And Ruben aunswered them, saying: sayd I not vnto you, that you shoulde not sinne against the lad, and ye would not heare? and see, nowe his blood is required. 23 They were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter. 24 And he turned from them and wept: and turned to them agayne, and communed with them, and toke out Simeon from amongest them, and bounde him before theyr eyes.
  • Gen 43:2 : 2 And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne which they had brought out of the lande of Egypt, theyr father sayde vnto them: go agayne and bye vs a litle foode.

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  • Acts 7:9-11
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    9And the patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: and God was with hym,

    10And deliuered hym out of all his aduersities, and gaue hym fauour & wisedome in the syght of Pharao kyng of Egypt: and he made hym gouernour ouer Egypt, & ouer all his housholde.

    11But there came a dearth ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan: and great affliction, that our fathers founde no sustenaunce.

  • Acts 7:13-15
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    13And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephes kinrede was made knowen vnto Pharao.

    14Then sent Ioseph, and caused his father to be brought, and all his kynne, three score and fyfteene soules.

    15And Iacob descended into Egypt, and dyed, both he and our fathers,

  • Gen 42:1-3
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    1And Iacob seing that there was corne in Egypt, sayde vnto his sonnes: why gape ye one vpon another?

    2And he said: behold, I haue hearde that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thyther, and bye vs corne from thence, that we may liue, and not dye.

    3So went Iosephes ten brethren downe to bye corne in Egypt.

  • Gen 43:1-2
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    1And the dearth was great in the lande.

    2And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne which they had brought out of the lande of Egypt, theyr father sayde vnto them: go agayne and bye vs a litle foode.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8After yt Iacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cryed vnto the Lord, the Lord sent Moyses & Aaron, which brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwel in this place.

  • Gen 42:5
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    5And the sonnes of Irael came to bye corne among other that came: for there was dearth in the lande of Chanaan.

  • Gen 45:25
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    25They departed therfore from Egypt, and came into the lande of Chanaan, vnto Iacob theyr father.

  • Num 20:15
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    15Our fathers went downe into Egypt, & we haue dwelt in Egypt a long tyme: and the Egyptians vexed vs and our fathers.

  • Gen 47:7
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    7And Ioseph brought in Iacob his father, and set hym before Pharao: and Iacob blessed Pharao.

  • Acts 7:17-18
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    17But when the tyme of the promyse drewe nye, whiche God had sworne to Abraham, the people grewe and multiplied in Egypt:

    18Tyll another king arose, which knew not of Ioseph.

  • Ps 105:17
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    17But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt.

  • Gen 47:5
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    5And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: thy father & thy brethre are come vnto thee.

  • Exod 1:5
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    5All the soules that came out of the line of Iacob, were seuentie:

  • Gen 46:6
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    6And they toke their cattell, and the goodes whiche they had gotten in the lande of Chanaan, & came into Egypt, both Icob and all his seede with him,

  • Gen 47:1
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    1Ioseph came therfore & tolde Pharao, and said: My father & my brethre, theyr sheepe, and theyr cattell, and all that they haue, are come out of ye lande of Chanaan: and beholde, they are in the lande of Gosen.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17And Pharao spake vnto Ioseph: say vnto thy brethren, this do ye: lade your beastes, and go and returne vnto the lande of Chanaan:

  • Gen 46:28
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    28And he sent Iuda before hym vnto Ioseph, to direct his face vnto Gosen, and they came into the lande of Gosen.

  • Gen 41:57
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    57And all countreys came into Egypt to Ioseph, for to bye corne because that the famine was so sore in all landes.

  • Gen 47:12
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    12And Ioseph made prouision for his father and his brethren, and all his fathers housholde with bread: euen to the mouthes of the young chyldren.

  • Gen 44:25
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    25And our father sayde vnto vs: go agayne, and bye vs a litle foode.

  • Gen 46:31
    72%

    31And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren, and vnto his fathers house: I wyll go vp, and shewe Pharao, and tell him: my brethren, and my fathers house, whiche were in the lande of Chanaan, are come vnto me.

  • Gen 37:12
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    12His brethren also went to kepe his fathers cattell in Sichem.

  • Gen 41:55
    71%

    55And when the lande of Egypt also began to hunger, the people cryed to Pharao for bread. And Pharao sayde vnto al the Egyptians, go vnto Ioseph: and what he sayeth to you, that do.