Holman Christian Standard Bible

Acts 7:11-18 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

11. Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.

12. When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors the first time.

13. The second time, Joseph was revealed to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

14. Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people in all,

15. and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,

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

17. “As the time was drawing near to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

18. until a different king who did not know Joseph ruled over Egypt.