1. And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
2. And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3. and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.
4. Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.
5. And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.
6. And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;
7. and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.
8. And he gave to him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
9. And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,
10. and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.
11. But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.
12. But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;
13. and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.