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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 Chaldeans, and dwelt in Haran; and from thence, when his father was dead, He removed himself into this land wherein 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 as a possession and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
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And God spoke in this way: that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should be brought into bondage and be mistreated for 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 begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot 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 favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
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"Now there came a dearth and great affliction over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.
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But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he first sent out our fathers.
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And on the second visit Joseph was made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred were made known unto Pharaoh.