Acts 7:11-19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹¹ Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.^{(A) 12} But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there on their first visit.^{(B) 13} On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.^{(C) 14} Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;^{(D) 15} so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,^{(E) 16} and their bodies^[a] were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.^(F)

¹⁷ “But as the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased and multiplied^{(G) 18} until another king who had not known Joseph ruled over Egypt. ¹⁹ He dealt craftily with our people and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die.^(H)