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  • When Jacob heard that there were supplies in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there on a first visit; (Acts 7, 12)

  • Joseph then sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, a total of seventy-five people. (Acts 7, 14)

  • Jacob went down into Egypt and after he and our ancestors had died there, (Acts 7, 15)

  • "I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." Moses trembled and was afraid to look. (Acts 7, 32)

  • He won God's favour and asked permission to find a dwelling for the House of Jacob, (Acts 7, 46)

  • In his humiliation fair judgement was denied him. Who will ever talk about his descendants, since his life on earth has been cut short? (Acts 8, 33)

  • To keep his promise, God has raised up for Israel one of David's descendants, Jesus, as Saviour, (Acts 13, 23)

  • For the promise to Abraham and his descendants that he should inherit the world was not through the Law, but through the uprightness of faith. (Romans 4, 13)

  • That is why the promise is to faith, so that it comes as a free gift and is secure for all the descendants, not only those who rely on the Law but all those others who rely on the faith of Abraham, the ancestor of us all (Romans 4, 16)

  • Though there seemed no hope, he hoped and believed that he was to become father of many nations in fulfilment of the promise: Just so will your descendants be. (Romans 4, 18)

  • and not all the descendants of Abraham count as his children, for Isaac is the one through whom your Name will be carried on. (Romans 9, 7)

  • Or as scripture says elsewhere: I loved Jacob but hated Esau. (Romans 9, 13)


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