King James Version (KJV)

Acts 7:17

“But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,”

Verse in context — Acts 7

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the father] of Sychem.

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

The birth and growth of the early church through the power of the Holy Spirit.