44:007:003 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy
kindred,
and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
44:007:004 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.
44:007:005 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.
44:007:006 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.
44:007:007 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.
44:007:008 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.
44:007:009 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold
Joseph into Egypt:
but
God was with him,
44:007:010 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.
44:007:011 Now there came a dearth over all the land
of Egypt and
Chanaan,
and great affliction: and our fathers found no
sustenance.
44:007:012 But when Jacob heard that there was corn
in Egypt, he sent out
our
fathers first.
44:007:013 And at the second time Joseph was made
known to his brethren;
and
Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
44:007:014 Then sent Joseph, and called his father
Jacob to him, and all
his
kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
44:007:015 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
44:007:016 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.
44:007:017 But when the time of the promise drew nigh,
which God had
sworn
to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
44:007:018 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
44:007:019 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.
44:007:020 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding
fair, and
nourished
up in his father’s house three months:


