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Acts 7:12

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   Government;   Readings, Select;   Thompson Chain Reference - Stephen;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gospel;   Joseph the son of jacob;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Old Testament in the New Testament, the;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Future State;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Corn;   Jacob;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joseph;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Jacob;   Preaching in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jacob;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Inspiration and Revelation;   Jacob ;   Joseph ;   Pre-Eminence ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;   Jacob;   Stephen;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'cob;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Joseph;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jacob (1);   Persecution;   Stephen;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.
King James Version (1611)
But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
King James Version
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
English Standard Version
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.
New American Standard Bible
"But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
New Century Version
But when Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons there. This was their first trip to Egypt.
Amplified Bible
"But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
Legacy Standard Bible
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
Berean Standard Bible
When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
Contemporary English Version
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there for the first time.
Complete Jewish Bible
But when Ya‘akov heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
Darby Translation
But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;
Easy-to-Read Version
"But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt. So he sent our people there. This was their first trip to Egypt.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:
George Lamsa Translation
But when Jacob heard that there was wheat in Egypt, he sent out our forefathers on their first venture.
Good News Translation
and when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons, our ancestors, on their first visit there.
Lexham English Bible
So when Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
Literal Translation
But hearing grain was in Egypt, Jacob sent our fathers out first.
American Standard Version
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
Bible in Basic English
But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.
Hebrew Names Version
But when Ya`akov heard that there was grain in Mitzrayim, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
International Standard Version
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first visit.Genesis 42:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And when Jakub heard that there was corn in Mitsreen, he sent forth our fathers before.
Murdock Translation
And when Jacob heard that there was bread-stuff in Egypt, he sent our fathers a first time.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But when Iacob hearde that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first.
English Revised Version
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
World English Bible
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But Jacob hearing there was corn in Egypt, sent our fathers first.
Weymouth's New Testament
When, however, Jacob heard that there was wheat to be had, he sent our forefathers into Egypt; that was the first time.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But whanne Jacob hadde herd, that whete was in Egipt, he sente oure fadris first.
Update Bible Version
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
Webster's Bible Translation
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
New King James Version
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
New Living Translation
Jacob heard that there was still grain in Egypt, so he sent his sons—our ancestors—to buy some.
New Life Bible
Then Jacob heard there was food in Egypt. He sent our early fathers there the first time.
New Revised Standard
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there on their first visit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But Jacob, hearing there was corn in Egypt, sent off our fathers, first;
Douay-Rheims Bible
But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers first.
Revised Standard Version
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But when Iacob hearde that ther was corne in Egipte he sent oure fathers fyrst
Young's Literal Translation
and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Iacob herde that there was corne in Egipte, and sent oure fathers out the first tyme.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but when Jacob heard there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers there.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Jake heard there was still some food down in Egypt, so he sent his sons down there to trade for some.

Contextual Overview

1 Then the high priest said, "Are these things true?" 2 So he replied, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, 3 and said to him, ‘ Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you .' 4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live. 5 He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child. 6 But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years . 7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves ,' said God, ‘ and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.' 8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. 9 The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him, 10 and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 42:1-24, Genesis 43:2

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:17
The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.
Deuteronomy 10:10
As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt,.... Not then growing, or gathering in there, or that was of that year's produce; for the famine was strong in the land of Egypt, as well as in Canaan; but was what had been laid up, and preserved in the seven years of plenty, by the order and care of Joseph; which by some means or another, Jacob had heard of; see Genesis 42:1 the Jews suggest u, that it was by divine revelation:

he sent out our fathers first; the first time, or the first year of the famine; or he sent them first, he laid his commands on them, or they had not gone; these were the ten sons of Jacob, and brethren of Joseph, who were sent the first time, for Benjamin stayed with his father: see Genesis 42:3.

u Bereshit Rabba, sect. 91. fol. 78. 1, 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Was corn in Egypt - The word “corn” here rather denotes “wheat.” See the notes on Matthew 12:1.

Our fathers - His ten sons; all his sons except Joseph and Benjamin, Genesis 42:0: Stephen here “refers” only to the history, without entering into details. By this general reference he sufficiently showed that he believed what Moses had spoken, and did not intend to show him disrespect.


 
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