Acts 7:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 49:33 : 33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
  • Exod 1:6 : 6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
  • Gen 46:3-7 : 3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes." 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 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, 7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
  • Num 20:15 : 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:
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
  • Josh 24:4 : 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
  • Heb 11:21-22 : 21 By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. 22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.

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

  • Acts 7:11-12
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    11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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

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

  • Exod 1:5-6
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    5All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

    6Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

  • Acts 7:16-17
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    16and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

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

  • 28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

  • Gen 50:13-14
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    13for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

    14Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

  • Gen 46:4-7
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    4I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

    5Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

    6They 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,

    7his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

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

  • 7Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

  • 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.

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

  • 30but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

  • 33When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

  • 1Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

  • 24Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

  • 26So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

  • 5'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

  • 16They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

  • 21By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

  • 27They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

  • 29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,