14. Then Joseph sent some men to tell Jacob, his father, to come to Egypt. He also invited all his relatives, a total of 75 people.
15. So Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our other ancestors lived there until they died.
16. Later, their bodies were moved to Shechem, where they were put in a tomb. It was the same tomb that Abraham had bought in Shechem from the sons of Hamor. He paid them with silver.
17. “The number of our people in Egypt grew. There were more and more of our people there. The promise that God made to Abraham was soon to come true.