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CHAPTER 7
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
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And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken;
The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt
in Charran,
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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 shew thee.
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Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in
Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye
now dwell.
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And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not
so much as
to set his foot on: yet he
promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when
as yet
he
had no child.
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And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and
that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat
them
evil 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
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,
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And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour 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 dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no
sustenance.
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But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
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And at the second
time
Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made
known unto Pharaoh.
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Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to
him,
and all his kindred,
threescore and fifteen souls.
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So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
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And
were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money
of the sons of Emmor
the father
of Sychem.
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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,
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Till another king arose,
which knew not Joseph.
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The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers,
so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
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In which time Moses
was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
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And
when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
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And
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of
Israel.
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And seeing one
of them
suffer wrong, he defended
him,
and avenged him that was
oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
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For he supposed his brethren would have understood how
that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
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And the next day he shewed
himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren;
why do ye wrong one to another?
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But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying,
Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
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Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian
yesterday?
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Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he
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