Acts 7:9

and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

In Context

8And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begot Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac [begot] Jacob, and Jacob—the twelve patriarchs;

10and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he set him—governor over Egypt and all his house.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:4and his brothers see that their father has loved him more than any of his brothers, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak [to] him peaceably.

Genesis 39:2And YHWH is with Joseph, and he is a prosperous man, and he is in the house of his lord the Egyptian,

Genesis 39:21And YHWH is with Joseph, and stretches out kindness to him, and puts his grace in the eyes of the chief of the round-house;

Genesis 49:23And embitter him indeed, they have striven, || Indeed, archers hate him;

Psalms 105:17He has sent a man before them, || Joseph has been sold for a servant.

Isaiah 43:2When you pass into waters, I [am] with you, || And into floods, they do not overflow you, || When you go into fire, you are not burned, || And a flame does not burn against you.

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 →

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