Acts 7:12

Acts 7:12
But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

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Genesis 18:13
And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?

Genesis 41:55
And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.

Genesis 41:56
And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 43:1
Now the land was in bitter need of food.

Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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Genesis 26:27
And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?

Genesis 37:9
Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.

Genesis 37:10
And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

Genesis 37:27
Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

Genesis 43:28
And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him.

Genesis 44:14
So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and they went down on their faces before him.

Genesis 44:19
My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

Genesis 45:4
Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

Genesis 45:5
Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.

Genesis 46:29
And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.

Genesis 50:15
Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

Judges 11:7
But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?

Proverbs 17:17
A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

Isaiah 60:14
And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Revelation 3:9
See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you.

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Genesis 42:2
And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.

Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

Genesis 42:7
And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

Genesis 42:8
Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was.

Genesis 42:9
Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

Genesis 42:10
And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food.

Genesis 42:11
We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

Genesis 42:12
And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

Genesis 42:13
Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

Genesis 42:14
And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;

Genesis 42:19
If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

Genesis 42:21
And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

Genesis 42:22
And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood.

Genesis 43:2
And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

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Genesis 42:15
But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42:16
Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.

Genesis 42:17
So he put them in prison for three days.

Genesis 42:18
And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

Genesis 42:20
And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

Genesis 42:23
They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.

Genesis 42:24
And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.

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Genesis 45:10
The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:

Genesis 45:11
And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

Genesis 46:2
And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Genesis 46:3
And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

Genesis 46:4
I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

Genesis 46:5
Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them.

Genesis 46:6
And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:

Joshua 24:4
And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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Genesis 50:16
So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

Genesis 50:17
You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

Genesis 50:18
Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

Genesis 50:19
And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50:20
As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.

Genesis 50:21
So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.

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Exodus 20:18
And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

Leviticus 20:17
And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

Numbers 20:29
And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for thirty days.

2 Kings 3:17
For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

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Genesis 45:17
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;

Genesis 45:18
And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food.

Genesis 47:6
And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.

Genesis 47:27
And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

Exodus 22:21
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

Leviticus 19:34
Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 10:19
So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:7
But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

Acts 7:17
But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

Acts 7:18
Till another king came to power, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

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Joshua 10:12
It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

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Matthew 12:1
At that time Jesus went through the fields on the Sabbath day; and his disciples, being in need of food, were taking the heads of grain.

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Luke 21:14
So take care not to be troubled before the time comes, about what answers you will give:

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Acts 7:2
And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

Acts 7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

Acts 7:19
He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.

Acts 7:44
Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

Acts 7:45
Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,

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1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

1 Samuel 8:8
As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.

1 Samuel 10:27
But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

Luke 19:14
But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

John 18:40
Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.

John 19:15
Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.

Acts 7:27
But the man who was doing wrong to his neighbour, pushing him away, said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

Acts 7:28
Will you put me to death as you did the Egyptian yesterday?

Acts 7:35
This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

Acts 7:39
By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

Acts 7:51
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

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Acts 11:22
And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch:

Acts 12:11
And when Peter came to his senses he said, Now, truly, I am certain that the Lord has sent his angel and taken me out of the hands of Herod, against all the hopes of the Jews.

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Hebrews 7:2
And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

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Revelation 7:4
And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel.

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