Acts 7:9

And 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 bris milah. And thus Avraham Avinu became the father of Yitzchak and he did his bris milah on the Yom HaShemini and Yitzchak became the father of Ya'akov and Ya'akov of the Sheneym Asar HaAvot. + 7:8 Gn 17:9-14; 21:2-4; 25:26; 29:31-35; 30:5-13,17-24; 35:16-26

10And 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

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Cross References

Genesis 37:4And when his achim saw that Avihem loved him more than all his achim, they hated him, and could not speak with shalom unto him.

Genesis 39:2And Hashem was with Yosef, and he was an ish matzliach (a man [G-d] makes prosper); and he was in the bais adonav haMitzri.

Genesis 39:21But Hashem was with Yosef, and showed him chesed, and gave him chen in the eyes of the sar bais hasohar.

Genesis 49:23The ba'alei khitzim (archers) provoke him, 1 and shoot at him, and hate him; 1

Psalms 105:17He sent an ish before them, even Yosef, 1 who was sold as an eved (slave); 1

Isaiah 43:2When thou passest through the mayim, I will be with thee; 1 and through the neharot, they shall not overflow thee: 1 when thou walkest through the eish, thou shalt not be burned; 1 neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 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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