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“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him
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All chapters Acts 7:9–16
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and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
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Verse 10. Gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao. Some understand divine graces, and gifts of prophecy, and the like: others, that he made him find favour in the sight of king Pharao, who appointed him to be governor of Egypt. Witham.
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Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
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But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
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On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.
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Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
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Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers;
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and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
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Verse 16. Which Abraham bought … of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem. This purchase made by Abraham must be different from the purchase of a field made afterwards by Jacob. Genesis 33:19. See a Lapide, the author of the Analysis, dissert. 23. P. Alleman, and so forth Witham.—Abraham bought. There must be an error of the copyist in this verse. Either the word Abraham ought to be omitted, or changed into Jacob. For it is plain, from Genesis 33:19 that the latter bought the land from the sons of Hemor. The Hebrew says, he bought it for one hundred kesitha, which some translate pieces of silver; others, lambs. As for Abraham, and Jacob, they were buried in the cavern of Mambre, which Abraham had purchased from the children of Heth. Genesis 23. Calmet.—It is supposed that originally the name of Jacob was given, abridged JAB, and that the first letter having disappeared, the two remaining letters were taken by misprision, for the abridgment of the name of Abraham. Hemor was the father of Sichem, and here the Greek text simply calls him Hemor of Sichem. V.
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