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But there came a famine throughout the whole of Egypt and Canaan--and great distress--so that our forefathers could find no food.

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On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh was informed of Joseph's parentage.

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Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his family, numbering seventy-five persons, to come to him,

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and Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and so did our forefathers,

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and they were taken to Shechem and were laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a sum of money paid in silver.

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"But as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people became many times more numerous in Egypt,

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At this time Moses was born--a wonderfully beautiful child; and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

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At length he was cast out, but Pharaoh's daughter adopted him, and brought him up as her own son.

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So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and possessed great influence through his eloquence and his achievements.

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Seeing one of them wrongfully treated he took his part, and secured justice for the ill-treated man by striking down the Egyptian.

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The next day, also, he came and found two of them fighting, and he endeavoured to make peace between them. "`Sirs,' he said, `you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?'

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"But the man who was doing the wrong resented his interference, and asked, "`Who appointed you magistrate and judge over us?

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"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the country and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.

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"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire in a bush.

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"`I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.' "Quaking with fear Moses did not dare gaze.

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I have seen, yes, I have seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. And now I will send you to Egypt.'

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"The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, `Who appointed you magistrate and judge?' --that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert for forty years.

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`This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.

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"Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

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"Moreover they made a calf at that time, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and kept rejoicing in the gods which their own hands had made.

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So God turned from them and gave them up to the worship of the Host of Heaven, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets, "'Were they victims and sacrifices which you offered Me, forty years in the Desert, O House of Israel?

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Yes, you lifted up Moloch's tent and the Star of the God Rephan--the images which you made in order to worship them; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.'

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That Tent was bequeathed to the next generation of our forefathers. Under Joshua they brought it with them when they were taking possession of the land of the Gentile nations, whom God drove out before them. So it continued till David's time.

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David obtained favour with God, and asked leave to provide a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.

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