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Acts - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- And the high priest said, Are these things so?
- And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
- and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
- Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, `God' removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell:
- and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when `as yet' he had no child.
- And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.
- And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
- And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so `Abraham' begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac `begat' Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
- And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,
- and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
- Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
- But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
- And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race became manifest unto Pharaoh.
- And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
- And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself and our fathers;
- and they were carried over unto Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
- But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
- till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
- The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.
- At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father's house.
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