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1 Then sayd the chefe preste: is it euen so?
2 And he sayd: ye men, brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, whan he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 and sayd vnto hym: Get the out of thy countre, and from thy kynred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe the.
4 Then came he out of the lande of Chalde, and dwelt in Charran. And from thence, whan hys father was deed, he brought him into this lande in which ye now dwel,
5 and he gaue hym none inheritaunce in it, no not the bredeth of a fote: and promysed that he wold geue it to him to possesse & to his seed after hym, when as yet he had no chylde.
6 God verely spake on thys wise that his seade shulde sogeourne in a straunge lande, & that they shulde kepe them in bondage, and entreate them euell .iiij.C. yeares.
7 And the nacyon (to whom they shalbe in bondage) will I iudge, sayd God. And after that shal they come forth and serue me in thys place.
8 And he gaue him the couenaunt of circuncisyon. And he begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eight daye, and Isaac begat Iacob, and Iacob begat the twelue patriarckes.
9 And the patriarkes hauing indygnacyon solde Ioseph into Egypte. And God was with hym,
10 and delyuered hym out of al his aduersities, and gaue him fauour & wysdome in the syght of Pharao kynge of Egypte. And he made hym gouernoure ouer Egypte, and ouer all hys housholde.
11 But ther came a derth ouer all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great afflyccion that our fathers founde no sustenaunce.
12 But when Iacob hearde that there was corne in Egypt he sent our fathers first.
13 And at the second tyme, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, & Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pharao.