English Standard Version

Acts 7:12-23 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.

13. And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

14. And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.

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

16. and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

17. “But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

18. until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.

19. He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.

20. At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house,

21. and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

22. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

23. “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.