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Acts 7:18

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

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Acts 7:18 in other translations

till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

Acts 7:18 · American Standard Version

Acts 7:18 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 17“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
  3. 18until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.
  4. 19The 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.
  5. 20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.