The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

God also gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, whom he circumcised on the eighth day, Isaac was the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

But, hearing there was food in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors on their first visit to that country;

Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his kinsfolk, amounting to seventy-five souls;

and Jacob went south to Egypt. When he and our ancestors died,

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

He found favour with God and asked permission to devise a dwelling for the God of Jacob.