But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,” God said, “and afterwards they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.”[a] Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

‘Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:7 Gen. 15:13,14