Acts 7:15
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New International Version (©2011)
Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Jacob went to Egypt. He died there, as did our ancestors.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And Jacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Jacob went down to Egypt. Then he and our ancestors died.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
( And Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, he and our fathers, )

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So Jacob went to Egypt, and he and our ancestors died there.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

American King James Version
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

American Standard Version
And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself and our fathers;

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, and our fathers.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

English Revised Version
And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself, and our fathers;

Webster's Bible Translation
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

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

World English Bible
Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

Young's Literal Translation
and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-16 Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values himself on it. The slow steps by which the promise made to Abraham advanced toward performance, plainly show that it had a spiritual meaning, and that the land intended was the heavenly. God owned Joseph in his troubles, and was with him by the power of his Spirit, both on his own mind by giving him comfort, and on those he was concerned with, by giving him favour in their eyes. Stephen reminds the Jews of their mean beginning as a check to priding themselves in the glories of that nation. Likewise of the wickedness of the patriarchs of their tribes, in envying their brother Joseph; and the same spirit was still working in them toward Christ and his ministers. The faith of the patriarchs, in desiring to be buried in the land of Canaan, plainly showed they had regard to the heavenly country. It is well to recur to the first rise of usages, or sentiments, which have been perverted. Would we know the nature and effects of justifying faith, we should study the character of the father of the faithful. His calling shows the power and freeness of Divine grace, and the nature of conversion. Here also we see that outward forms and distinctions are as nothing, compared with separation from the world, and devotedness to God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - And for so, A.V.; he died, himself for died, he, A.V.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So Jacob went down into Egypt,.... At the invitation of his son Joseph:

and died, he, and our fathers; both Jacob and his twelve sons died in Egypt, though we have no account of the death of any of them, but Jacob and Joseph, particularly; only in general, that Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation, Genesis 49:33 Exodus 1:6 the Syriac version adds "there", that is, in Egypt.

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Stephen Addresses the Sanhedrin
…14Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, three score and fifteen souls. 15So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, 16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem. …

Genesis 46:1 So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Genesis 46:6 So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.
Genesis 47:30 but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried." "I will do as you say," he said.
Genesis 49:33 When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
Exodus 1:6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
Exodus 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place."
Joshua 24:32 And Joseph's bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph's descendants.
Psalm 105:23 Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.