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1 The high priest said, "Is this statement true?"
2 He answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The glorious God appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
3 and he said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives and come to the country that I will show you.'
4 So he left the country of the Chaldeans and went to live in Haran, and from there after the death of his father, God caused him to move into this country where you now live.
5 He gave him no property in it, not a single foot, but he promised to give it to him and his posterity after him permanently, though he had no children at that time.
6 This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years,
7 and I will sentence the nation that has enslaved them,' God said, 'and afterward they will leave that country and worship me on this spot.'
8 And he made the agreement of circumcision with him, and so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9 The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,
10 and rescued him from all his troubles, and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he appointed him governor of Egypt and of his whole household.
11 Then a famine spread all over Egypt and Canaan, and there was great suffering, and our forefathers could not find any food.
12 But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and he sent our forefathers on their first visit there.
13 On their second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh learned of Joseph's parentage.