Verse 12
Acts 7:12
Geneva Bible
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But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:
Original Language Text
greek
ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὄντα ⸂σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον⸃ ἐξαπέστειλεν τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον·
English Translation
And Jacob, having heard that there was grain in Egypt, sent our fathers first.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
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Then sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so?
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And he sayd, Ye men, brethren and Fathers, hearken. That God (Elohim) of glory appeared vnto our fat...
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And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I s...
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Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran. And after that his father was d...
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And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the bredth of a foote: yet he promised that he woul...
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But God (Elohim) spake thus, that his seede should be a soiourner in a strange land: and that they s...
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But the nation to whome they shall be in bondage, will I iudge, sayth God (Elohim): and after that,...
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Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the...
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And the Patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: but God (Elohim) was with him,
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And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao...
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Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction, that our fath...
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But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:
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And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto...
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Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kindred, euen threescore and fifte...
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So Iacob went downe into Egypt, and he dyed, and our fathers,
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And were remoued into Sychem, and were put in the sepulchre, that Abraham had bought for money of th...
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But when the time of the promise drewe neere, which God (Elohim) had sworne to Abraham, the people g...
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Till another King arose, which knewe not Ioseph.
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The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and euill entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out...
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The same time was Moses borne, and was acceptable vnto God (Elohim), which was nourished vp in his f...
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And when he was cast out, Pharaohs daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.
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And Moses was learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians, and was mightie in wordes and in deedes.
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Nowe when he was full fourtie yeere olde, it came into his heart to visite his brethren, the childre...
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And whe he saw one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and auenged his quarell that had the harme...
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For hee supposed his brethren would haue vnderstand, that God (Elohim) by his hande should giue them...
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And the next day, he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one again...
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But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a prince, and a iudge ou...
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Wilt thou kill mee, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
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Then fled Moses at that saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begate two sonnes...
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And when fourtie yeres were expired, there appeared to him in the wildernes of mout Sina, an Angel o...
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And when Moses sawe it, hee wondred at the sight: and as he drew neere to consider it, the voyce of...
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I am the God (Elohim) of thy fathers, the God (Elohim) of Abraham, and the God (Elohim) of Isaac, an...
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Then the Lord said to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feete: for the place where thou standest, is h...
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I haue seene, I haue seene the affliction of my people, which is in Egypt, and I haue heard their gr...
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This Moses whome they forsooke, saying, Who made thee a prince and a iudge? the same God (Elohim) se...
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Hee brought them out, doing wonders, and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the red sea, and in t...
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This is that Moses, which saide vnto the children of Israel, A Prophet shall the Lord your God (Eloh...
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This is he that was in the Congregation, in the wildernes with the Angell, which spake to him in mou...
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To whom our fathers would not obey, but refused, and in their hearts turned backe againe into Egypt:
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Saying vnto Aaron, Make vs gods that may goe before vs: for we knowe not what is become of this Mose...
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And they made a calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice vnto the idole, and reioyced in the work...
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Then God (Elohim) turned himselfe away, and gaue them vp to serue the host of heauen, as it is writt...
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And ye tooke vp the tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of your god Remphan, figures, which ye made...
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Our fathers had the tabernacle of witnes, in the wildernes, as hee had appointed, speaking vnto Mose...
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Which tabernacle also our fathers receiued, and brought in with Iesus into the possession of the Gen...
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Who found fauour before God (Elohim), and desired that hee might finde a tabernacle for the God (Elo...
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But Salomon built him an house.
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Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with handes, as saith the Prophet,
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Heauen is my throne, and earth is my footestoole: what house wil ye build for me, saith the Lord? or...
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Hath not mine hand made all these things?
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Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as...
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Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? and they haue slaine them, which shewed befo...
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Which haue receiued the Lawe by the ordinance of Angels, and haue not kept it.
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But when they heard these thinges, their heartes brast for anger, and they gnashed at him with their...
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But he being full of the holy Ghost, looked stedfastly into heauen, and sawe the glory of God (Elohi...
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And said, Beholde, I see the heauens open, and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God (E...
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Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ranne vpon him violently al...
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And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong...
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And they stoned Steuen, who called on God (Elohim), and said, Lord Iesus, receiue my spirit.
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And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loude voyce, Lord, laye not this sinne to their charge. And w...
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