Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
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- Gen 49:33 : 33 When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.
- Exod 1:6 : 6 and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.
- Gen 46:3-7 : 3 He 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 with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.” 5 Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him. 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.
- Num 20:15 : 15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
- 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.
- Deut 26:5 : 5 Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.
- Josh 24:4 : 4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- Heb 11:21-22 : 21 By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.
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14So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.
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11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
12So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.
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25So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
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5All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
6and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.
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16and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,
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28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.
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13His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
14After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
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4I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”
5Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.
6Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.
7He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters– all his descendants.
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15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
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7So 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,
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8When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD. The LORD sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
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7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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30but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said,“I will do as you say.”
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33When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.
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1Joseph’s Dreams But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.
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24Then Joseph said to his brothers,“I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
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26So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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5‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,“I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
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16So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died:
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21By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.
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27But 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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29They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,