Acts 7:15 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 7:15

13 And the ^asecond time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh.

14 ^aThen Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and ^ball his relatives to him, seventy-five people.

15 ^aSo Jacob went down to Egypt; ^band he died, he and our fathers.

16 And ^athey were carried back to Shechem and laid in ^bthe tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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17 “But when ^athe time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, ^bthe people grew and multiplied in Egypt

18 till another king ^aarose who did not know Joseph.

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the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him—Here Stephen gives his first example of Israel's opposition to God's purposes, in spite of which and by means of which those purposes were accomplished.

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