Acts 7:6-29

⁶God verely spake on this wyse that his seade shulde be a dweller in a straunge londe and that they shulde kepe them in bondage and entreate them evyll .iiii.C. yeares.

⁷But the nacion to whom they shalbe in bondage will I iudge sayde God. And after that shall they come forthe and serve me in this place.

⁸And he gave him the covenaunt of circumcision. And he begat Isaac and circumcised him the viii. daye and Isaac begat Iacob and Iacob the twelve patriarkes.

⁹And the patriarkes havinge indignacion solde Ioseph into Egipte. And God was with him

¹⁰and delivered him out of all his adversities. And gave him faveour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him governer over Egipte and over all his housholde.

¹¹Then came ther a derth over all the londe of Egipt and Canaan and great affliccion that our fathers founde no sustenauce.

¹²But when Iacob hearde that ther was corne in Egipte he sent oure fathers fyrst

¹³and at the seconde tyme Ioseph was knowen of his brethren and Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pharao.

¹⁴Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought and all his kynne thre score and xv. soules.

¹⁵And Iacob descended into Egipte and dyed bothe he and oure fathers

¹⁶and were translated into Sichem and were put in the sepulcre that Abraham bought for money of the sonnes of Emor at Sichem.

¹⁷When the tyme of the promes drue nye (which God had sworme to Abraham) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte

¹⁸till another kynge arose which knewe not of Ioseph.

¹⁹The same dealte suttelly with oure kynred and evyll intreated oure fathers and made them to cast oute their younge chyldren that they shuld not remayne alyve.

²⁰The same tyme was Moses borne and was a proper childe in the sight of God which was norisshed vp in his fathers housse thre monethes.

²¹When he was cast out Pharoes doughter toke him vp and norisshed him vp for her awne sonne.

²²And Moses was learned in all maner wisdome of the Egipcians and was mighty in dedes and in wordes.

²³And when he was full forty yeare olde it came into his hert to visit his brethren the chyldren of Israhel.

²⁴And when he sawe one of them suffre wronge he defended him and avenged his quarrell that had the harme done to him and smote the Egypcian.

²⁵For he supposed hys brethren wolde have vnderstonde how that God by his hondes shuld save them But they vnderstode not.

²⁶And the next daye he shewed him selfe vnto them as they strove and wolde have set the at one agayne sayinge: Syrs ye are brethren why hurte ye one another?

²⁷But he that dyd his neghbour wronge thrust him awaye sayinge: who made the a rular and a iudge amonge vs?

²⁸What wilt thou kyll me as thou dyddest the Egyptian yester daye?

²⁹Then fleed Moses at that sayenge and was a stranger in the londe of Madian where he begat two sonnes.