4. Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he caused him to move to this land in which you now live.
5. And he did not give him an inheritance in it—not even a footstep—and he promised to give it to him for his possession, and to his descendants after him, although he did not have a child.
6. But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years,
7. and the nation that they will serve as slaves, I will judge,’ God said, ‘and after these things they will come out and will worship me in this place.’
8. And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac did so with Jacob, and Jacob did so with the twelve patriarchs.
9. And the patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. And God was with him,
10. and rescued him from all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.
11. And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.
12. So when Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13. And on the second visit Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.
14. So Joseph sent and summoned his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five persons in all.
15. And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.
16. And they were brought back to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17. “But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt
18. until another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
19. This man deceitfully took advantage of our people and mistreated our ancestors, causing them to abandon their infants so that they would not be kept alive.
20. At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. He was brought up for three months in his father’s house,
21. and when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and brought him up as her own son.
22. And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23. “But when he was forty years old, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.
24. And when he saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended him and avenged the one who had been oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.