8. “Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. So he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and so Isaac with Jacob, and Jacob with the twelve patriarchs.
9. The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him.
10. He rescued him out of all his troubles and granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over Egypt and all his household.
11. “Famine and great suffering came over all Egypt and Canaan, 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 his family became known to Pharaoh.
14. So Joseph sent and called for Jacob and all his relatives—seventy-five persons.
15. Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.
16. They were carried to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17. “But as the time drew near for the promise God had sworn to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt—
18. until ‘there arose another king over Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.’
19. Dealing with our people with cruel cunning, this king mistreated our fathers and forced them to abandon their infants so they would not survive.
20. “At this time Moses was born—extraordinary before God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
21. And when he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and raised him as her own son.
22. Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in his words and deeds.
23. “When he was approaching forty years of age, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, Bnei-Yisrael.