Acts 7:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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  • Acts 7:6 : 6 And God spoke in this way, that his descendants would dwell in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them poorly for four hundred years.
  • Acts 13:17 : 17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm he brought them out of it.
  • 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  • Gen 15:13-16 : 13 And He said to Abram, Know certainly that your offspring shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
  • Exod 1:7-9 : 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it happen, that when any war breaks out, they join also with our enemies, and fight against us, and so go up out of the land. 11 Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 1:20 : 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty.
  • Ps 105:24-25 : 24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies. 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully with his servants.

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  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18Until another king arose who did not know Joseph.

    19This king dealt shrewdly with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, forcing them to expose their infants so that they might not live.

  • Acts 7:4-13
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    4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he moved him into this land, where you now dwell.

    5And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on; yet he promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when as yet he had no child.

    6And God spoke in this way, that his descendants would dwell in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them poorly for four hundred years.

    7And the nation to whom they will be in bondage, I will judge, said God; and after that they shall come out, and serve me in this place.

    8And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

    9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him,

    10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

    11Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

    12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

    13And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers; and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.

  • Exod 1:7-9
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    7And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

    8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

    9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

  • Gen 47:27-28
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    27And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

    28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was one hundred forty-seven years.

  • Acts 7:15-16
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    15So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers,

    16And were carried over into Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem.

  • Exod 2:23-24
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    23Now it happened, in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died. The children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

    24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8When Jacob came into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

  • Exod 1:5
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    5And all the people that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was already in Egypt.

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • Exod 1:12
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    12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 6:4-5
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    4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, where they were strangers.

    5And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

  • Exod 12:40
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    40Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

  • Exod 13:19
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    19And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had solemnly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.

  • Acts 13:17
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    17The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm he brought them out of it.

  • Gen 17:2
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    2And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

  • Deut 7:8
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    8But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
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    19When you were few in number, even very few, and strangers in it.

  • Exod 3:17
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    17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Josh 24:3
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    3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

  • Acts 7:2
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    2And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

  • Gen 41:29
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    29Seven years of great abundance will come throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 32:13
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    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

  • Exod 7:5
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    5And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

  • Exod 1:20
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    20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
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    7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods.

  • Gen 46:6
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    6And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his descendants with him.

  • Gen 15:13
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    13And He said to Abram, Know certainly that your offspring shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

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

  • Exod 6:8
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    8And I will bring you into the land, about which I swore to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the LORD.