5. And he gave him no 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.
6. And God spoke thus, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into slavery and mistreat them four hundred years.
7. And the Gentiles unto whom they shall be in slavery I will judge, said God; and after that they shall come forth and serve me in this place.
8. 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.
9. And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him
10. and delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11. Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.
12. But when Jacob heard that there was wheat in Egypt, he sent our fathers the first time.
13. And in the second Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s lineage was made known unto Pharaoh.
14. Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob unto him and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.
15. So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,
16. who were carried over into Shechem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.
17. But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18. until another king arose, who did not know Joseph.
19. The same dealt subtly with our kindred and mistreated our fathers so that they exposed their babies to death, to the end that the generation would cease.