Acts 7:14 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his relatives, 75 people in all.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

ASV:

And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

BBE:

Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

DBY:

And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

ERV:

And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

WEY:

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his family, numbering seventy-five persons, to come to him,

WBS:

Then Joseph sent, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, seventy five souls.

WEB:

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

YLT:

and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls --

Acts 7:14 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 45:9 "Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.

Genesis 45:10 "You shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.

Genesis 46:26 All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob's sons, were sixty-six persons in all,

Exodus 1:5 All the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:22 "Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Acts 2:41 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

7:14 Then sent Joseph. The rejected Joseph becomes the prince and savior of all Israel.
Threescore and fifteen souls. Ge 46:27 says that sixty-six persons besides Jacob, Joseph and his two sons, seventy in all, were in Egypt. But the Septuagint Version, quoted almost invariably by Christ and the apostles, as well as by Stephen here, after giving the sixty-six, adds: And the sons of Joseph born in Egypt were nine souls. The nine, added to the sixty-six, make the seventy-five that Stephen gives. Why this clause was omitted from the Hebrew text, followed by the Common Version, is unknown. Stephen simply follows the text received by Christ, the apostles, and the Jews generally.

WES:

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.

MHC:

7:1-16 Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values himself on it. The slow steps by which the promise made to Abraham advanced toward performance, plainly show that it had a spiritual meaning, and that the land intended was the heavenly. God owned Joseph in his troubles, and was with him by the power of his Spirit, both on his own mind by giving him comfort, and on those he was concerned with, by giving him favour in their eyes. Stephen reminds the Jews of their mean beginning as a check to priding themselves in the glories of that nation. Likewise of the wickedness of the patriarchs of their tribes, in envying their brother Joseph; and the same spirit was still working in them toward Christ and his ministers. The faith of the patriarchs, in desiring to be buried in the land of Canaan, plainly showed they had regard to the heavenly country. It is well to recur to the first rise of usages, or sentiments, which have been perverted. Would we know the nature and effects of justifying faith, we should study the character of the father of the faithful. His calling shows the power and freeness of Divine grace, and the nature of conversion. Here also we see that outward forms and distinctions are as nothing, compared with separation from the world, and devotedness to God.

CONC:

Family Fifteen Invited Jacob Joseph Kindred Numbering Persons Relatives Seventy Seventy-five Souls Summoned Threescore

Family Fifteen Five Invited Jacob Joseph Kindred Numbering Persons Relatives Seventy Seventy-Five Souls Summoned Threescore Whole Word

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