Acts 7:14
So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 10:22 : 22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
- Gen 46:26-27 : 26 All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number.(This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.) 27 Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.
- Exod 1:5 : 5 All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
- Gen 45:9-9 : 9 Now go up to my father quickly and tell him,‘This is what your son Joseph says:“God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay! 10 You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me– you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have. 11 I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor– you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’
- Gen 46:12 : 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah(but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
- 1 Chr 2:5-6 : 5 The sons of Perez:Hezron and Hamul. 6 The sons of Zerah:Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol, Dara– five in all.
- Ps 105:23 : 23 Israel moved to Egypt; Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham.
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- Exod 1:5-62 verses83%
5 All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
6 and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.
- Gen 46:26-283 verses81%
26 All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number.(This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)
27 Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.
28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.
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15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
- Acts 7:12-132 verses80%
12 So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.
13 On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.
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25 So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 50:14-163 verses76%
14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,“What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”
16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died:
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31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
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5 Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.
- Gen 47:1-22 verses74%
1 Joseph’s Wise Administration Joseph went and told Pharaoh,“My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”
2 He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.
- Gen 50:7-82 verses74%
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him– the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
8 all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
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17 Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!
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7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
- Gen 46:6-72 verses73%
6 Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.
7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters– all his descendants.
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12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.
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7 Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
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2 This is the account of Jacob.Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
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27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.
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22 Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.
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12 When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
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4 Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
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17 He sent a man ahead of them– Joseph was sold as a servant.
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28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.
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13 They replied,“Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”
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1 Manasseh and Ephraim After these things Joseph was told,“Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.
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3 So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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9 Now go up to my father quickly and tell him,‘This is what your son Joseph says:“God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!
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29 They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,