Acts 7:17
“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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- Acts 7:6 : 6 But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
- Acts 13:17 : 17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
- 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day. 9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
- Gen 15:13-16 : 13 Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. 14 But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15 But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”
- Exod 1:7-9 : 7 The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them. 8 Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt. 9 He said to his people,“Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are! 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.” 11 So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,
- Exod 1:20 : 20 So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.
- Ps 105:24-25 : 24 The LORD made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies. 25 He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.
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- Acts 7:18-192 verses79%
18until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.
19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- Acts 7:4-1310 verses78%
4Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.
5He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.
6But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
7But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God,‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’
8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,
10and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
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.
13On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.
- Exod 1:7-93 verses77%
7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
8Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.
9He said to his people,“Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!
- Gen 47:27-282 verses76%
27Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.
28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.
- Acts 7:15-162 verses73%
15So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
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.
- Exod 2:23-242 verses73%
23The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.
24God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
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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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5All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
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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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12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,
- Exod 6:4-52 verses71%
4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.
5I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
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40Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
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19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear,“God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you.”
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17The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
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2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”
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13Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
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8Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the LORD brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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19When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,
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17and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
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3but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,
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39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,
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2So he replied,“Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
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29Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.
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13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
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5Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.
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20So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.
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7A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History This happened because the Israelites sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods;
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6Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.
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13Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
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7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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8I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob– and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’”