2And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,
3And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.
4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:
5And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.
6And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
7And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.
8And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.