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What does Acts 7:17 mean?
"“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,"
— Acts 7:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
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.
“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.
The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
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