"My brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

They were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought at a high price from Hamor's descendants in Shechem.

"Now as the time approached for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people's population increased a great deal in Egypt.