Acts 7:14

Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relatives, seventy-five persons in all;

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In The King James Version

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

In Context

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

15and so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,

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Cross References

Genesis 45:9“Go up quickly to my father and say to him, ‘Your son Joseph says: God has made me master of all Egypt, come down to me without delay.

Genesis 46:26All the people belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including the wives of his sons, were sixty-six in total.

Psalms 105:23Thus Israel came into Egypt, Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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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