Genesis 47:27 says Israel in Egypt grew and multiplied exceedingly. Exodus 1:7 deliberately resumes that multiplication vocabulary, saying the children of Israel were fruitful, increased abundantly, multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty. The verbal and narrative continuity forms a direct Genesis-to-Exodus bridge.

Exodus says Israel was fruitful, multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty under oppression; Numbers 1 then counts the military-age men of that multiplied people tribe by tribe. The census therefore shows the narrative result of the multiplication theme in an organized wilderness community.

Stephen explicitly retells Israel’s multiplication in Egypt, the rise of a hostile king, and the oppression that followed, summarizing the opening movement of Exodus. Acts therefore treats Exodus 1 as remembered salvation history rather than a merely similar story.