Acts 7:7-29

⁷But the nation to whome they shall be in bondage, will I iudge, sayth God: and after that, they shall come forth and serue me in this place.

⁸Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob the twelue Patriarkes.

⁹And the Patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

¹⁰And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao King of Egypt, who made him gouernour ouer Egypt, and ouer his whole house.

¹¹Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance.

¹²But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:

¹³And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao.

¹⁴Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kindred, euen threescore and fifteene soules.

¹⁵So Iacob went downe into Egypt, and he dyed, and our fathers,

¹⁶And were remoued into Sychem, and were put in the sepulchre, that Abraham had bought for money of the sonnes of Emor, sonne of Sychem.

¹⁷But when the time of the promise drewe neere, which God had sworne to Abraham, the people grewe and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸Till another King arose, which knewe not Ioseph.

¹⁹The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and euill entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their yong children, that they should not remaine aliue.

²⁰The same time was Moses borne, and was acceptable vnto God, which was nourished vp in his fathers house three moneths.

²¹And when he was cast out, Pharaohs daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.

²²And Moses was learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians, and was mightie in wordes and in deedes.

²³Nowe when he was full fourtie yeere olde, it came into his heart to visite his brethren, the children of Israel.

²⁴And whe he saw one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and auenged his quarell that had the harme done to him, and smote the Egyptian.

²⁵For hee supposed his brethren would haue vnderstand, that God by his hande should giue them deliuerance: but they vnderstoode it not.

²⁶And the next day, he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one againe, saying, Syrs, ye are brethren: why doe ye wrong one to another?

²⁷But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a prince, and a iudge ouer vs?

²⁸Wilt thou kill mee, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

²⁹Then fled Moses at that saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begate two sonnes.