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Act 7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore
and fifteen souls.

Included in this number are Jacob’s sons, their wives, children, and grandchildren. They are the
ones who will settle in Egypt and go into slavery. They will also come out of captivity four
hundred years later, numbering over 2 million.

DEATH OF JACOB

Act 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

Act 7:16 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.

Jacob and his sons were buried in Shechem when they first died, but Joseph was not. Joseph’s
bones remained unburied for four hundred years. They were eventually carried by the children

of Israel to Shechem and buried there (Genesis 50: 22-26; Joshua 24:32; Hebrews 11:22).

EVIL AGAINST ISRAEL

Act 7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the
people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Act 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

But when the time of the promise drew nigh (400 years later), which God had sworn to

Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, till another king arose, which knew not
Joseph. This is found in Exodus 1:8-22.

Act 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they
cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

The same dealt subtly with (schemed against) our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so
that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

The Pharaoh was so enraged that these people multiplied even under hardship and slavery, he
made a decree to kill all the young male children to hold down the population.

MOSES

BIRTH

Act 7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his
father's house three months: