Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

The Patriarchs in Egypt

“And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him

and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.

God Delivers Israel by Moses

“But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.

Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’

I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.” ’

He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He brought them out of it.

Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a rebellion and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”