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And God spoke in these terms, that his descendants would be resident aliens in a country belonging to others, who would enslave them and mistreat them during four hundred years.
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"But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, "and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
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Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
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"The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him,
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and rescued him from all his afflictions, and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
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Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan, and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.
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But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there on their first visit.
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On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
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Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;
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so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,
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and their bodies were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.