Acts 7:10

And Hashem delivered Yosef from all his tzoros and gave to him Chen v'Chesed Hashem and chochmah before Pharaoh king of Mitzrayim (Egypt) and he appointed him his grand vizier to rule over Mitzrayim and over his whole bais. + 7:10 Gn 41:37-45; Ps 105:20-22

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

In Context

9And the Avot had kinah toward Yosef and sold him into Mitzrayim (Egypt), and Hashem was with him. + 7:9 Gn 37:4; 11:28; 37:28; Ps 105:17; Gn 39:1,2,21,23; 45:4; Hag 2:4

11Now a famine came over all Mitzrayim (Egypt) and Kena'an and tzarah gedolah (great tribulation) and Avoteinu were not finding okhel. + 7:11 Gn 41:54; 42:2,5

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Cross References

Genesis 41:12And there was there with us a na'ar Ivri, eved to the sar hatabbachim; and we told him, and he interpreted to us chalomoteinu (our dreams); to each according to his chalom he did interpret.

Genesis 44:18Then Yehudah came near unto him, and said, Oh, adoni, let thy eved speak now a davar in oznei adoni, and let not thine anger burn against thy eved; for thou art even like Pharaoh.

Genesis 48:16The Malach which redeemed me from kol rah, 1 may he make a brocha on the ne'arim, 1 and let my shem be named on them, 1 and the shem of my Avot Avraham and Yitzchak; 1 and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of ha'aretz.

Psalms 34:17The face of Hashem is against them that do rah, 1 to cut off the zekher (remembrance) of them from ha'aretz. 1

Psalms 40:1(For the one directing, Of Dovid. Mizmor) 1

Proverbs 2:6For Hashem giveth chochmah; 1 out of His Peh (mouth) cometh da'as (knowledge) and tevunah (understanding). 1

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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