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Acts 7:9-15 Modern English Version (MEV)

9. “The patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him,

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

11. “Then a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan with great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

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

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

14. Then Joseph sent and called for his father Jacob and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

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

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