Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of our fathers the apostles, may their blessings be with us.
Acts 7 : 8 - 22
Chapter 7
| 8 | Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.
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| 9 | "And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him
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| 10 | and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
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| 11 | Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.
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| 12 | But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
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| 13 | And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to the Pharaoh.
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| 14 | Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.
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| 15 | So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
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| 16 | And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.
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| 17 | "But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt
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| 18 | till another king arose who did not know Joseph.
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| 19 | This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.
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| 20 | At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months.
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| 21 | But when he was set out, Pharaoh's daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son.
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| 22 | And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
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The word of the Lord shall grow, multiply, be mighty, and be confirmed, in the holy Church of God.
Amen.
