Acts 7:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 42:1-9 : 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" 2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die." 3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. 4 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. 7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food." 8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him. 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land." 10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies." 12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!" 13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more." 14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!' 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. 16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." 17 He put them all together into custody for three days. 18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God. 19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so. 21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us." 22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." 23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. 24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
  • Gen 43:2 : 2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

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    9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

    10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

    11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

  • Acts 7:13-15
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    13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

    14 Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

    15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

  • Gen 42:1-3
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    1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

    2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

    3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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    1 The famine was severe in the land.

    2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

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    8 "When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.

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    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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    25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

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    15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

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    7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

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    17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

    18 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.

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    17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

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    5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

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    5 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

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    6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

  • Gen 47:1
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    1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

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    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 46:28
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    28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 41:57
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    57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

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    12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

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    25 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

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    31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

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    12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

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    55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."