Acts 7:17

New Century Version

“The promise God made to Abraham was soon to come true, and the number of people in Egypt grew large.

Cross References

Genesis 47:27

The Israelites continued to live in the land of Goshen in Egypt. There they got possessions and had many children and grew in number.

Exodus 1:20

God was good to the nurses. And the Hebrew people continued to grow in number, so they became even stronger.

Acts 13:17

The God of the Israelites chose our ancestors. He made the people great during the time they lived in Egypt, and he brought them out of that country with great power.

Acts 7:6

This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants will be strangers in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves and will mistreat them for four hundred years.