◄ Acts 7:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.

New Revised Standard Version
so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,

Contemporary English Version
His father went to Egypt and died there, just as our ancestors did.

New American Bible
and Jacob went down to Egypt. And he and our ancestors died

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Jacob.

Genesis 46:3-7 God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there. . . .

Numbers 20:15 In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

Deuteronomy 10:22 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 26:5 And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.

Joshua 24:4 And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

died.

Genesis 49:33 And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.

Exodus 1:6 After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,

Hebrews 11:21,22 By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and adored the top of his rod. . . .

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
…14And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls. 15So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers. 16And they were translated into Sichem and were laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem.…
Cross References
Genesis 46:1
And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

Genesis 46:6
And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into Egypt with all his seed;

Genesis 47:30
But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.

Genesis 49:33
And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.

Exodus 1:6
After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,

Exodus 13:19
And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.

Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel had taken out of Egypt, they buried in Sichem, in that part of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for a hundred young ewes, and it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph.

Psalm 105:23
And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

Acts 7:14
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