Acts 7:17

God's Word

“When the time that God had promised to Abraham had almost come, the number of our people in Egypt had grown very large.

Cross References

Genesis 47:27

So the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and had many children.

Exodus 1:20

God was good to the midwives. So the people increased in number and became very strong.

Acts 13:17

The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors and made them a strong nation while they lived as foreigners in Egypt. He used his powerful arm to bring them out of Egypt,

Acts 7:6

God told Abraham that his descendants would be foreigners living in another country and that the people there would make them slaves and mistreat them for 400 years.