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Acts 7:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. "

Acts 7:12

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10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.

14 Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

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Genesis 42:1

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"Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”"

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1 Samuel 12:8

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"“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place."

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Genesis 43:2

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"When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”"

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Numbers 20:15

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"how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers."

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Exodus 1:1

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"Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):"

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Nehemiah 9:9

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"“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,"

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Acts 7:1

"The high priest said, “Are these things so?”"

Acts 7:2

"He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,"

Acts 7:3

"and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’"

Acts 7:4

"Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living."

Acts 7:5

"He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child."

Acts 7:6

"God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years."

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