Acts 7:2-16

2And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The 1God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

3and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

4Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.

5And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

6And 2God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;

7and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said 3God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

8And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

9And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And 4God was with him,

10and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.

11But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

12But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;

13and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

14And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.

15And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

16and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the [father] of Sychem.