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and were translated into Sichem ond were put in ye sepulcre that Abraham bought for money of the sonnes of Emor at Sichem.
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When ye tyme of ye promes drue nye (which God had sworme to Abraham) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte
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till another kynge arose which knewe not of Ioseph.
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The same dealte suttelly with oure kynred and evyll intreated oure fathers and made them to cast oute their younge chyldren that they shuld not remayne alyve.
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The same tyme was Moses borne and was a proper childe in ye sight of God which was norisshed vp in his fathers housse thre monethes.
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When he was cast out Pharoes doughter toke him vp and norisshed him vp for her awne sonne.
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And Moses was learned in all maner wisdome of the Egipcians and was mighty in dedes and in wordes.
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And when he was full forty yeare olde it came into his hert to visit his brethren the chyldren of Israhel.
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And when he sawe one of them suffre wronge he defended him and avenged his quarell that had the harme done to him and smote the Egypcian.
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For he supposed hys brethren wolde have vnderstonde how yt God by his hondes shuld save them But they vnderstode not.
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And the next daye he shewed him selfe vnto the as they strove and wolde have set the at one agayne sayinge: Syrs ye are brethren why hurte ye one another?