7. but I will bring judgment on the nation they serve,’ God said, ‘and after that they will come out and worship me in this place.’
8. Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, as Isaac did Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
9. “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him
10. and rescued him from all his afflictions. He granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, who put him in charge of Egypt and [of] his entire household.
11. Then a famine and great affliction struck all Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food;
12. but when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there a first time.
13. The second time, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.
14. Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob, inviting him and his whole clan, seventy-five persons;
15. and Jacob went down to Egypt. And he and our ancestors died
16. and were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor at Shechem.
17. “When the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God pledged to Abraham, the people had increased and become very numerous in Egypt,
18. until another king who knew nothing of Joseph came to power [in Egypt].
19. He dealt shrewdly with our people and oppressed [our] ancestors by forcing them to expose their infants, that they might not survive.
20. At this time Moses was born, and he was extremely beautiful. For three months he was nursed in his father’s house;