6God spoke thus, that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
7`I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,` said God, `and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.`
8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
9"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
