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He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,

And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

And when he was cast out, Pharaoh"s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father"s house three months:

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph"s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.