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Then he came out of the land of the Kasdim, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.
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He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.
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God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'
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He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Avraham became the father of Yitzchak, and circumcised him the eighth day. Yitzchak became the father of Ya`akov, and Ya`akov became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
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"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Yosef, sold him into Mitzrayim. God was with him,
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and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Par`oh, king of Mitzrayim. He made him governor over Mitzrayim and all his house.
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Now a famine came over all the land of Mitzrayim and Kana`an, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
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But when Ya`akov heard that there was grain in Mitzrayim, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
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On the second time Yosef was made known to his brothers, and Yosef's race was revealed to Par`oh.
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Yosef sent, and summoned Ya`akov, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.