Jacob set out from Beersheba. His sons put him, their small children, and their wives in the wagons which the king of Egypt had sent.

his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters.

how our ancestors went to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated our ancestors and us,

Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.

Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God,

who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I have indeed heard the cry of my people, and I see how the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Samuel continued, "The LORD is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors out of Egypt.

Now I am sending you to the king of Egypt so that you can lead my people out of his country."

At this the LORD became angry with Moses and said, "What about your brother Aaron, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. In fact, he is now coming to meet you and will be glad to see you.

He will be your spokesman and speak to the people for you. Then you will be like God, telling him what to say.

Meanwhile the LORD had said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." So he went to meet him at the holy mountain; and when he met him, he kissed him.

So Moses and Aaron went to Egypt and gathered all the Israelite leaders together.

They believed, and when they heard that the LORD had come to them and had seen how they were being treated cruelly, they bowed down and worshiped.

Aaron and Moses were the ones to whom the LORD said, "Lead the tribes of Israel out of Egypt."

On that day the LORD brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.

On that day the LORD saved the people of Israel from the Egyptians, and the Israelites saw them lying dead on the seashore.

When the Israelites saw the great power with which the LORD had defeated the Egyptians, they stood in awe of the LORD; and they had faith in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

He said, "My servant Moses is dead. Get ready now, you and all the people of Israel, and cross the Jordan River into the land that I am giving them.

Your borders will reach from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north; from the great Euphrates River in the east, through the Hittite country, to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

As you advance, he will surely drive out the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. You will know that the living God is among you

Now choose twelve men, one from each of the tribes of Israel.

With our own ears we have heard it, O God--- our ancestors have told us about it, about the great things you did in their time, in the days of long ago:

Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.

He brought them to his holy land, to the mountains which he himself conquered.

He drove out the inhabitants as his people advanced; he divided their land among the tribes of Israel and gave their homes to his people.

He gave them the lands of other peoples and let them take over their fields,