Acts 7:9-16 - The Patriarchs In Egypt

⁹ And the patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him ¹⁰ and delivered him from all his troubles, and allowed him to win favor and to show wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and so he appointed Joseph governor of Egypt and of his whole household. ¹¹ Then a famine spread all over Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our forefathers could not find the simplest food. ¹² But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt and sent our forefathers on their first visit down there. ¹³ On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and thus Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh. ¹⁴ Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his kinsmen, seventy-five in all; ¹⁵ and Jacob came down to Egypt. There he and our forefathers died ¹⁶ and were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought with a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.