Acts 7:15

“So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations for Acts 7:15

So Iacob went downe into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers,
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"And Jacob went down to Egypt and {there} he and our fathers died.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself and our fathers;
- American Standard Version (1901)

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;
- Basic English Bible

And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,
- Darby Bible

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
- Webster's Bible

and Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and so did our forefathers,
- Weymouth Bible

Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
- World English Bible

And Jacob cam doun in to Egipt, and was deed, he and oure fadris;
- Wycliffe Bible

and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,
- Youngs Literal Bible

Bible Commentary for Acts 7:15

Wesley's Notes for Acts 7:15


7:14 Seventy - five souls - So the seventy interpreters, (whom St. Stephen follows,) one son and a grandson of Manasseh, and three children of Ephraim, being added to the seventy persons mentioned #Gen 46:27|.

7:16 And were carried over to Shechem - It seems that St. Stephen, rapidly running over so many circumstances of history, has not leisure (nor was it needful where they were so well known) to recite them all distinctly. Therefore he here contracts into one, two different sepulchres, places, and purchases, so as in the former history, to name the buyer, omitting the seller, in the latter, to name the seller, omitting the buyer. Abraham bought a burying place of the children of Heth, Gen. xxiii. #Gen 23:1 |- 20 There Jacob was buried. Jacob bought a field of the children of Hamor. There Joseph was buried. You see here, how St. Stephen contracts these two purchases into one. This concise manner of speaking, strange as it seems to us, was common among the Hebrews; particularly, when in a case notoriously known, the speaker mentioned but part of the story, and left the rest, which would have interrupted the current of his discourse, to be supplied in the mind of the hearer. And laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought - The first land which these strangers bought was for a sepulchre. They sought for a country in heaven. Perhaps the whole sentence might be rendered thus: So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers, and were carried over to Shechem, and laid by the sons (that is, decendants) of Hamor, the father of Shechem, in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money.

7:17 #Exod 1:7|.


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