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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.
8
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
10
and delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
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Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.
12
But when Jacob heard that there was wheat in Egypt, he sent our fathers the first time.
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And in the second Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s lineage was made known unto Pharaoh.
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Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob unto
him and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.
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So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,
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who were carried over into Shechem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.
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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,