and gave him favor and wisdom before
{341} Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and
all his house. Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and
great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. But when Jacob
heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first
time. And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and
Joseph's family became known unto Pharaoh. And Joseph sent, and called
to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen
souls. And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself, and our
fathers; and they were carried over unto Shechem, and laid in the tomb
that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor in
Shechem.

"But as the time of the promise drew nigh, which God promised to
Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, till there arose
another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. The same dealt craftily
with our race, and compelled our fathers to cast out their babes to the
end they might not live. At this season Moses was born, and was
exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father's house:
and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished
him for her own son.

"And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was
mighty in his words and works. But when he was well-nigh forty years
old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of
Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and
avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian: {342} and he
supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving
them deliverance; but they understood not. And the day following he
appeared unto them as they strove, and would have made peace, saying,
'Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?' But he that did
his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, 'Who made thee a ruler and a
judge over us? Wouldest thou kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian
yesterday?'

"And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of
Midian, where he had two sons. And when forty years were passed, an
angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of
fire in a bush. And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as
he drew near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord, 'I am the God of
thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.'

"And Moses tre