Acts 7:14

Joseph sent his brothers back to tell Jacob his father to come to Egypt, along with all 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

13On their second trip Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.

15So Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:9Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me master of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.

Genesis 46:26All those who went to Egypt with Jacob, who were his descendants, not counting Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six in all.

Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down into Egypt as seventy persons; now Yahweh your God has made you as many as the stars of the heavens.

Psalms 105:23Then Israel came into Egypt, 1 and Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham. 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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