Acts 7:15

and Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and so did our forefathers,

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his family, numbering seventy-five persons, to come to him,

16and they were taken to Shechem and were laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a sum of money paid in silver.

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Cross References

Hebrews 11:21Through faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and, leaning on the top of his staff, worshipped God.

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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