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Acts 7:14
Acts 7:14 is verse 14 of Acts chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
King James Version
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
World English Bible
Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
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Acts 7:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
13 On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.
14 Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
15 So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.
16 Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 45:9Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
Genesis 45:10You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
Genesis 45:11And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
Psalms 105:23Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
Genesis 46:12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46:26All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.
Genesis 46:27And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
1 Chronicles 2:5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
1 Chronicles 2:6The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara —five in all.