Acts 7:15
and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
In Context
14and Joseph having sent, called for his father Jacob, and all his relatives—with seventy-five souls—
Cross References
Genesis 49:33And Jacob finishes commanding his sons, and gathers up his feet to the bed, and expires, and is gathered to his people.
Numbers 20:15that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt [for] many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;
Deuteronomy 26:5And you have answered and said before your God YHWH, My father [is] a perishing Aramean! And he goes down to Egypt, and sojourns there with few men, and becomes a great, mighty, and populous nation there;
Hebrews 11:21By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped on the top of his staff.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17
Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →