JMNT(i)
9 "Then the patriarchs, becoming jealous of Joseph, gave [him] away by selling [him] into Egypt – and yet God continued being with him –
10 "And so He took him up out (extricated him) from the midst of all his pressures (or: squeezing compressions; tribulations; afflictions), and then 'gave to him grace and favor, as well as wisdom, before (in front of; in the sight of) Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who established him (appointed and placed him down) [as the] one to continue exercising leadership upon and being governor over Egypt, as well as his whole house (or: household and palace affairs).' [Gen. 41:37-44]
11 "'Now a famine came upon the whole of Egypt and Canaan,' [Gen. 41:54] and [there was] great pressure (stress and affliction), and so our fathers (forefathers; ancestors) kept on not finding provisions (foodstuffs and sustenance-effects for people or provender and pasture for cattle).
12 "So upon hearing of there being [stores of] grain in Egypt, Jacob sent out our fathers on a first mission (or, with other MSS: Thus, at hearing of there being grain, Jacob sent forth our ancestors into Egypt a first [time]).
13 "Then during the second [mission] 'Joseph was made known to his brothers,' [Gen. 45:1] and so Joseph's race (family stock; kindred group) came to be apparent and manifest to Pharaoh.
14 "So now Joseph, dispatching [them], called (or: summoned) Jacob, his father, and all [his] relatives (the group of common birth) from that place – consisting of seventy-five souls (= people) [note: Stephen follows the LXX here].
15 "Thus Jacob walked down into Egypt. Later he came to his end – he and our fathers –