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Acts 7:12-23 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12. So when Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

13. And on the second visit Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

14. So Joseph sent and summoned his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five persons in all.

15. And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.

16. And they were brought back to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

17. “But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

18. until another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.

19. This man deceitfully took advantage of our people and mistreated our ancestors, causing them to abandon their infants so that they would not be kept alive.

20. At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. He was brought up for three months in his father’s house,

21. and when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and brought him up as her own son.

22. And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and deeds.

23. “But when he was forty years old, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

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