New American Bible, Revised Edition

Acts 7:12-17 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

12. but when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there a first time.

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

14. Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob, inviting him and his whole clan, seventy-five persons;

15. and Jacob went down to Egypt. And he and our ancestors died

16. and were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor at Shechem.

17. “When the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God pledged to Abraham, the people had increased and become very numerous in Egypt,