Acts 7:3-25

³and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and come into a land that I will show you.’

⁴Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and resided in Haran. From there, after his father died, God moved him to this land in which you now live;

⁵yet He did not give him an inheritance in it, not even a footstep. He promised to give it to him for a possession, that is, to his seed after him, though he had no child.

⁶Further, God spoke like this: that his offspring would be aliens in a foreign land—and that they would be enslaved and oppressed—four hundred years.

⁷‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve Me in this place.’

⁸And He gave him a covenant of circumcision; and so he begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac did the same to Jacob, and Jacob to the twelve patriarchs.

⁹“The patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt; yet God was with him

¹⁰and delivered him out of all his adversities, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹And a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, even a great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.

¹²But upon hearing that there was wheat in Egypt, Jacob first sent our fathers.

¹³On the second trip Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was presented to Pharaoh.

¹⁴Joseph sent and summoned his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

¹⁵So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers;

¹⁶and they were transferred to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.

¹⁷“Now as the time of the promise was approaching which God had sworn to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸until a different king arose who had not known Joseph.

¹⁹This man took advantage of our race and oppressed our fathers, making them expose their babies so that they would not stay alive.

²⁰At that time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; he was nurtured in his father's house for three months.

²¹When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him to herself and brought him up as her own son.

²²So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; he was mighty in words and deeds.

²³Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

²⁴Well seeing one of them being wronged, he defended and avenged the one being oppressed, striking down the Egyptian.

²⁵Now he supposed that his brothers understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.