Acts 7:9
“And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,”
And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Related Verses
“So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,”
“And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.”
“But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.”
“Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.”
“And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.”