Deeds (Act) of Apostles 7:6-29

⁶And God spake to him, That his seed shall be a comeling or a guest in an alien land, and they shall make them subject to servage, and shall evil treat them, four hundred years and thirty or four hundred years;

⁷and I shall judge the folk to whom they shall serve, saith the Lord. And after these things they shall go out, and they shall serve to me in this place.

⁸And he gave to him the testament of circumcision; and so he engender-ed Isaac, and circumcised him in the eighth day. And Isaac engendered Jacob, and Jacob engendered the twelve patriarchs.

⁹And the patriarchs had envy to Joseph, and sold him into Egypt. And God was with him,

¹⁰and delivered him of all his tribulations, and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And he ordained him sove-reign on Egypt, and on all his house.

¹¹And hunger came into all Egypt, and Canaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found not meat.

¹²But when Jacob had heard, that wheat was in Egypt, he sent our fathers first.

¹³And in the second time Joseph was known of his brethren, and his kin was made known to Pharaoh.

¹⁴And Joseph sent, and called Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy and five men or souls.

¹⁵And Jacob came down into Egypt, and was dead, he and our fathers;

¹⁶and they were translated into Sychem, and were laid in the sepulchre, that Abraham bought by price of silver of the sons of Emmor, the son of Sychem.

¹⁷And when the time of promise came nigh, which God had acknowl-edged to Abraham, the people waxed, and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸till another king rose in Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

¹⁹This beguiled our kin, and torment-ed our fathers, that they should put away or should put out their young children, for they should not live.

²⁰In the same time Moses was born, and he was loved or accepted of God; and he was nourished three months in the house of his father.

²¹And when he was put out in the flood, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and nourished him into her son.

²²And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and works.

²³But when the time of forty years was full-filled to him, it rose up into his heart, that he should visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

²⁴And when he saw a man suffering wrong, he avenged him, and did vengeance for him that suffered the wrong, and killed the Egyptian.

²⁵For he guessed that his brethren should understand, that God should give to them health by the hand of him; but they understood not.

²⁶For in the day pursuing he appeared to them chiding, and he accorded or reconciled them in peace, and said, Men, ye be brethren; why annoy ye each other?

²⁷But he that did the wrong to his neighbour, putted him away, and said, Who ordained thee prince and dooms-man on us?

²⁸Whether thou wilt slay me, as yesterday thou killedest the Egyptian?

²⁹And in this word Moses flew, and was made a comeling in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.