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Then said the high priest ,
Are these things so ?
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And he said ,
Men ,
brethren ,
and fathers ,
hearken ;
The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham ,
when he was in Mesopotamia ,
before he dwelt in Charran ,
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And said unto him ,
Get thee out of thy country ,
and from thy kindred ,
and come into the land which I shall shew thee .
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Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans ,
and dwelt in Charran :
and from thence ,
when his father was dead ,
he removed him into this land ,
wherein ye now dwell .
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And he gave him none inheritance in it ,
no ,
not so much as to set his foot on :
yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession ,
and to his seed after him ,
when as yet he had no child .
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And God spake on this wise ,
That his seed should sojourn in a strange land ;
and that they should bring them into bondage ,
and entreat them evil four hundred years .
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And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge ,
said God :
and after that shall they come forth ,
and serve me in this place .
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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 begat the twelve patriarchs .
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And the patriarchs ,
moved with envy ,
sold Joseph into Egypt :
but God was with him ,
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And delivered him out of all his afflictions ,
and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt ;
and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house .
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Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan ,
and great affliction :
and our fathers found no sustenance .
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But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt ,
he sent out our fathers first .
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And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren ;
and Joseph '
s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh .
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Then sent Joseph ,
and called his father Jacob to him ,
and all his kindred ,
threescore and fifteen souls .
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So Jacob went down into Egypt ,
and died ,
he ,
and our fathers ,
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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 .
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But when the time of the promise drew nigh ,
which God had sworn to Abraham ,
the people grew and multiplied in Egypt ,
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Till another king arose ,
which knew not Joseph .
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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 .