6. `And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,
7. and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.
8. `And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob--the twelve patriarchs;
9. and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,