Acts 7:17-19

Contemporary English Version

^17 (A) Finally, the time came for God to do what he had promised Abraham. By then the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased. ¹⁸ Another king was ruling Egypt, and he didn't know anything about Joseph. ^19 (B) He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them. He even made them leave their babies outside, so they would die.