Acts 7:14

Good News Translation

So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.

Cross References

Genesis 45:13

Tell my father how powerful I am here in Egypt and tell him about everything that you have seen. Then hurry and bring him here.”

Genesis 46:12

Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.

Psalm 105:23

Then Jacob went to Egypt and settled in that country.

Exodus 1:5

The total number of these people directly descended from Jacob was seventy. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.

Acts 2:41

Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.