VERSE STUDY • KJV

Acts 7:14

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

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Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.

Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred—with seventy and five souls—

11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

13 And at the second [time] Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the father] of Sychem.

17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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