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Acts 7:9-10BSB
Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.
Earlier text
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
Earlier text
"Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him." Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
Earlier text
the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
Earlier text
He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.
Stephen's covenant-history speech recites the Joseph narrative with brevity: "Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him and rescued him from all his troubles" (Acts 7:9-10). The recital compresses Genesis 37 (the brothers' jealousy, Gen 37:11) and Genesis 39–41 (God's presence with Joseph and his elevation before Pharaoh) into the speech's larger argument that God's saving purposes advance through rejected deliverers even outside the land. This is narrative recital, not typological identification — Stephen's typological pivots come later, at Moses ("This Moses, whom they had rejected... God sent to be their ruler and redeemer," Acts 7:35), the tupon of the tent (7:44), and the Righteous One (7:52). The Joseph paragraph supplies the pattern's first instance in the speech's redemptive-historical progression without claiming Joseph as a tupos of Christ. Stephen's "appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household" reproduces LXX Genesis 41:43 (κατέστησεν αὐτὸν ἐφ᾽ ὅλης γῆς Αἰγύπτου; cf. LXX Psalm 104:21).