Acts 7:12

Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Then a famine spread over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, causing great distress, and our ancestors could find no food.

13In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:1Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, and he said to his sons, “Why do you stand looking at each other?

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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