Acts 7:13-23

¹³On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.

¹⁴Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

¹⁵Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers;

¹⁶and 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.

¹⁷“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸until there arose a different king who didn’t know Joseph.

¹⁹The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

²⁰At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

²¹When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.

²²Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

²³But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.