Acts 7:15

And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died there, he and our fathers.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14And Joseph sent and brought is father Jacob, and all his family; and they were in number seventy and five souls.

16And he was transported to Sychem, and was deposited in the sepulchre which Abraham bought with money of the sons of Emmor.

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Cross References

Hebrews 11:21By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and bowed himself on the top of his staff.

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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