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Then the prince of the priests said, 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 Haran,
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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 show thee.
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Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and dwelt in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, in which ye now dwell.
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And he gave him no 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 spoke thus, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into slavery and mistreat
them four hundred years.
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And the Gentiles unto whom they shall be in slavery I will judge, said God; and after that they shall 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