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'And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.'
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Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.
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"And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him
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and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
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Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.
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But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
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And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to the Pharaoh.
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Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.
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So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
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And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.
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"But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt