Acts 7:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Acts 7:6 : 6 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
  • Acts 13:17 : 17 The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
  • 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  • Gen 15:13-16 : 13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth, 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
  • Exod 1:7-9 : 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph. 9 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land." 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 1:20 : 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
  • Ps 105:24-25 : 24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries. 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

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  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.

    19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.

  • Acts 7:4-13
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    4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

    5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

    6 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

    7 'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'

    8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

    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.

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

    13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

  • Exod 1:7-9
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    7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

    8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.

    9 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

  • Gen 47:27-28
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    27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

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

  • Acts 7:15-16
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    15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

    16 and 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.

  • Exod 2:23-24
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    23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

    24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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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.

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

  • Num 20:15
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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:

  • Exod 1:12
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    12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 6:4-5
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    4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

    5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

  • Exod 12:40
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    40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

  • Exod 13:19
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    19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."

  • Acts 13:17
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    17 The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.

  • Gen 17:2
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    2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

  • Heb 6:13
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    13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

  • Deut 7:8
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    8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
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    19 when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

  • Exod 3:17
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    17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

  • Josh 24:3
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    3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Acts 7:2
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    2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

  • Gen 41:29
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    29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 32:13
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    13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

  • Exod 7:5
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    5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

  • Exod 1:20
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    20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
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    7 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

  • Gen 46:6
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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 15:13
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    13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

  • Gen 47:7
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    7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Exod 6:8
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    8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"