Acts 7:9 Cross References - DouayRheims

⁹ And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

⁴ And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated hem, and could not speak peaceably to him. ⁵ Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. ⁶ And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed. ⁷ I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf. ⁸ His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred. ⁹ He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me. ¹⁰ And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth? ¹¹ His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

¹⁸ And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him: ¹⁹ And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh. ²⁰ Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him: ²¹ And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said: ²² Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father. ²³ And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours: ²⁴ And cast him into an old pit where there was not water. ²⁵ And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. ²⁶ And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? ²⁷ It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words. ²⁸ And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt. ²⁹ And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:

² And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in his master's house:

⁵ And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.

²¹ But the Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him favour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison: ²² Who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in custody: and whatsoever was done, was under him. ²³ Neither did he himself know any thing, having committed all things to him: for the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper.

⁴ And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

²³ But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him. ²⁴ His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

¹⁵ Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. ¹⁶ And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died, ¹⁷ That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept. ¹⁸ And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants. ¹⁹ And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God? ²⁰ You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

² When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:

¹⁸ For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.