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And he gavehim the covenant of circumcision:andso Abraham begatIsaac,andcircumcisedhim the eighthday;andIsaac begat Jacob;andJacob begat the twelvepatriarchs.
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And the patriarchs, moved with envy, soldJosephintoEgypt:butGodwaswithhim,
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Anddeliveredhim out ofallhisafflictions,andgavehimfavourandwisdom in the sight of Pharaohking of Egypt;and he madehimgovernoroverEgyptandallhishouse.
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Now there came a dearthoverall the land of EgyptandChanaan,andgreataffliction:andourfathersfoundnosustenance.
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But when Jacobheard that there wascorninEgypt, he sent outourfathersfirst.
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Andat the second time Joseph was made known to hisbrethren;andJoseph'skindred was madeknown unto Pharaoh.
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ThensentJoseph, and calledhisfatherJacob to him, andallhiskindred*, threescore and fifteensouls.
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SoJacob went downintoEgypt,anddied, he,andourfathers,
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And were carried overintoSychem,andlaidin the sepulchrethatAbrahambought for a sum of moneyof the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
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Butwhen the time of the promise drew nigh, whichGod had sworn to Abraham, the peoplegrewandmultipliedinEgypt,
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The same dealt subtilly with ourkindred, and evil entreatedourfathers, so that they cast outtheir young children, to the end they mightnotlive.
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InwhichtimeMoses was born, andwasexceedingfair,and nourished upinhisfather'shousethreemonths:
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And when he was cast out, Pharaoh'sdaughtertookhimup, andnourishedhimfor her ownson.
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AndMoses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,andwasmightyinwordsandindeeds.
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Andwhenhe was full forty yearsold, it cameintohisheart to visithisbrethren the children of Israel.
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Andseeingone of them suffer wrong, he defended him, andavenged* him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
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For[a] he supposedhisbrethren would have understoodhow that Godbyhishand would deliver*them:but they understoodnot.
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And the nextday he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have setthemat one again,saying, Sirs,yearebrethren;why do ye wrong one to another?
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But he that did his neighbourwrongthrusthimaway, saying, Whomadethee a rulerand a judgeoverus?
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Wilt*thoukillme,asthoudiddest the Egyptianyesterday?