6. But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
7. 'And whatever nation to which they will be in bondage I Myself will judge,' said God, 'and after that they will come out and serve Me in this place.'
8. And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9. "The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet 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 made him governor over Egypt and all his household.
11. "Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.
12. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
13. On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was disclosed to Pharaoh.
14. Then Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.
15. And Jacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died.