And he said, Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.

But God spoke in this way: that his seed would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years.

And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

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

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

Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy- five souls.

And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.

till another king arose who did not know Joseph.

At this time Moses was born, and was beautiful to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months.

And Moses was trained 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.

And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?

Do you not want to do away with me in the same way you did the Egyptian yesterday?

And when forty years had passed, the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

I am the God of your fathers; the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses becoming terrified, dared not look.

I have given attention to see the affliction 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 led 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.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living Words to give to us,

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.

Then God turned and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,

who found favor before God and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:

Has My hand not made all these things?

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,

Now Jehovah said to Abram: Depart from your land, from your kindred and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who despises you; and in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to be God unto you and unto your seed after you.

Also I have given unto you and your seed after you the land in which you sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an enduring possession; and I will be their God.

And because He has loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them and brought you out of Egypt before Him with His mighty power,

For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God; Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure out of all the peoples upon the face of the earth.

but because Jehovah loves you, and to keep the oath which He has sworn to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that Jehovah your God is driving them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers; to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

You are Jehovah God, who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and placed upon him the name Abraham;

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites; to give it to his seed. You have performed Your words, for You are just.

O seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His elect.

He remembers His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded, to a thousand generations,

and confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel as a perpetual covenant,

when they were but a few men in number, yea very few, and sojourned in it.

For YAH has chosen Jacob unto Himself, Israel for His valued treasure.

But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;

whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you and set you apart. And I said to you, You are My servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.

Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen;

Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah has chosen, He has even cast them off? Thus they have despised My people, that they should no more be a nation before them.

then I will cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will bring back their captives, and have mercy on them.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His possession, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

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

And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly numerous; and the land was filled with them.

And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and vast than we.

Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

He led 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.

Then Jehovah said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.

I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Jehovah I have not been known to them.

And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

I will take you to Myself as a people, and I will be God to you. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

And Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.

Go, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a command for the sons of Israel, and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song unto Jehovah, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto Jehovah, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!

Jehovah is a man of war; Jehovah is His name.

The abyss has covered them; they have sunk to the depths like a stone.

And in the greatness of Your majesty You have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; my desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Who is like You, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength unto Your holy habitation.

Then the chiefs of Edom have been dismayed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling takes hold of them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

You bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O Jehovah, which You have made for Your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Jehovah, which Your hands have established.

For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them. But the children of Israel have walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

And Miriam answered them: Sing unto Jehovah, for He has risen up to be exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!

Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all the gods; for in the very things in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.

But Jehovah has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.

Or has God ever tried to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God has done for you in Egypt before your eyes?

the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which Jehovah your God has brought you out. Thus shall Jehovah your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck Egypt with all the plagues in the wilderness.

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea.

And You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and those pursuing them You threw into the deep, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Your way, O God, is in holiness; who is so great a Mighty God as our God?

You have with Your arm redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound; Your arrows also went here and there.

Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps have not been known.

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters stand up like a heap.

They did not remember His hand, the day when He ransomed them from the enemy,

turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

He also gave up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to lightning.

He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague,

But He made His own people go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen.

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His Word.

Their land brought forth frogs in swarms, even in the chambers of their kings.

He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

He spoke, and locusts came, caterpillars without number,

He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their vigor.

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled by the sea; the Red Sea.

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

The waters covered their enemies; there was not one of them left.

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back.

What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

He has struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

He struck many nations and slew mighty kings;

To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn, for His mercy is eternal;

with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, for His mercy is eternal;

and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for His mercy is eternal;

In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Then He remembered the days of old, Moses and His people, saying, Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him;

He led them through the deep, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they might not stumble.

For You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, and in Israel and among men; and have made Yourself a name, as it is this day;

and have brought forth Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror.

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.

For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; and I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.

As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.

The nations shall see and be put to shame for all their might. They shall lay their hand over their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.