Joseph Sold into Egypt
Acts 7:12
In 9 translations
- BSB
- When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
- KJV
- But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
- WEB
- But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
- ASV
- But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
- LSV
- and Jacob having heard that there was grain in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;
- YLT
- and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;
- DBY
- But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;
- DRC
- But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:
- GNV
- But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read σιτία (“grain”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read σῖτα (“grain”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read εἰς (“in”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐν (“in”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read Αἴγυπτον (“Egypt”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read Αἰγύπτῳ (“Egypt”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον; Robinson–Pierpont read σῖτα ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὄντα σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐξαπέστειλεν τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον·
- RP2018
- Ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὄντα σῖτα ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ἐξαπέστειλεν τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον.
- TR-Boyd
- Ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὄντα σῖτα ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ἐξαπέστειλε τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν πρῶτον.
- SCR1894
- ακουσας δε ιακωβ οντα σιτα εν αιγυπτω εξαπεστειλεν τους πατερας ημων πρωτον
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Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 42:1–24When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?” “Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we…
- Genesis 43:2So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
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