Acts 7:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

His father went to Egypt and died there, just as our ancestors did.

Cross References

Genesis 46:1

Jacob packed up everything he owned and left for Egypt. On the way he stopped near the town of Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God his father Isaac had worshipped.

Genesis 47:30

Instead, bury me in the place where my ancestors are buried.” “I will do what you have asked,” Joseph answered.

Genesis 49:33

When Jacob had finished giving these instructions to his sons, he lay down on his bed and died.

Psalm 105:23

Jacob and his family came and settled in Egypt as foreigners.

Exodus 1:6

After Joseph, his brothers, and everyone else in that generation had died,

Exodus 13:19

Moses made them take along the bones of Joseph, whose dying words had been, “God will come to your rescue, and when he does, be sure to take along my bones.”

Numbers 20:15

Our ancestors settled in Egypt and lived there a long time. But later the Egyptians were cruel to us,

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went to live in Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But the LORD has blessed you, and now there are more of you than there are stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then, standing there in front of the place of worship, you must pray: My ancestor was homeless, an Aramean who went to live in Egypt. There were only a few in his family then, but they became great and powerful, a nation of many people.

Joshua 24:32

When the people of Israel left Egypt, they brought the bones of Joseph along with them. They took the bones to the town of Shechem and buried them in the field that Jacob had bought for one hundred pieces of silver from Hamor, the founder of Shechem. The town and the field both became part of the land belonging to the descendants of Joseph.

Joshua 24:4

Then I gave Isaac two sons, Jacob and Esau. I let Esau live in the hill country of Mount Seir, but your ancestor Jacob and his children went to live in Egypt.