Acts 7:1-19 : American Standard Version

1And the high priest said, Are these things so?
2And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory
appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before
he dwelt in Haran, 3and said unto him, Get thee out of
thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall
show thee. 4Then came he out of the land of the
Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was
dead, God removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell: 5and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set
his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in
possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6And God spake on this wise, that his seed should
sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into
bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years. 7And
the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God:
and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so
Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac
begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. 9And the
patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt:
and God was with him, 10and delivered him out of all his
afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of
Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and
great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. 12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth
our fathers the first time. 13And at the second time
Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race became
manifest unto Pharaoh. 14And Joseph sent, and called to
him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen
souls. 15And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died,
himself and our fathers; 16and 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. 17But as the
time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the
people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18till there arose
another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 19The same
dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they
should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.