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Other Translations: King James Joseph Smith Translation American Standard Douay Rheims
1 Then sayde ye chefe prest: is it even so?
2 And he sayde: ye men brethren and fathers harken to. The God of glory appered vnto oure father Abraha whyll he was yet in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charran
3 and sayd vnto him: come out of thy contre and from thy kynred and come into the londe which I shall shewe the.
4 Then came he out of the londe of Chaldey and dwelt in Charran. And after that assone as his father was deed he brought him into this lande in which ye now dwell
5 and he gave him none inheritaunce in it no not the bredeth of a fote: but promised yt he wolde geve it to him to possesse and to his seed after him when as yet he had no chylde.
6 God verely spake on this wyse that his seade shulde be a dweller in a straunge londe and that they shulde kepe them in bondage and entreate them evyll .iiii.C. yeares.
7 But the nacion to whom they shalbe in bondage will I iudge sayde God. And after that shall they come forthe and serve me in this place.
8 And he gave him the covenaunt of circumcision. And he begat Isaac and circumcised him the viii. daye and Isaac begat Iacob and Iacob the twelve patriarkes
9 And the patriarkes havinge indignacio solde Ioseph into Egipte. And God was with him
10 and delivered him out of all his adversities. And gave him faveour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him governer over Egipte and over all his housholde.
11 Then came ther a derth over all the londe of Egipt and Canaan and great affliccion that our fathers founde no sustenauce.
12 But when Iacob hearde that ther was corne in Egipte he sent oure fathers fyrst
13 and at the seconde tyme Ioseph was knowen of his brethren and Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pharao.
14 Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought and all his kynne thre score and xv. soules.
15 And Iacob descended into Egipte and dyed bothe he and oure fathers
16 and were translated into Sichem ond were put in ye sepulcre that Abraham bought for money of the sonnes of Emor at Sichem.
17 When ye tyme of ye promes drue nye (which God had sworme to Abraham) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte
18 till another kynge arose which knewe not of Ioseph.
19 The same dealte suttelly with oure kynred and evyll intreated oure fathers and made them to cast oute their younge chyldren that they shuld not remayne alyve.
20 The same tyme was Moses borne and was a proper childe in ye sight of God which was norisshed vp in his fathers housse thre monethes.
21 When he was cast out Pharoes doughter toke him vp and norisshed him vp for her awne sonne.
22 And Moses was learned in all maner wisdome of the Egipcians and was mighty in dedes and in wordes.
23 And when he was full forty yeare olde it came into his hert to visit his brethren the chyldren of Israhel.