and said to him, Go forth out of thy country, and from among thy relations, and come hither to a land which I will shew thee.

Then spake God to him thus, That his seed should sojourn in a foreign land: and that they should enslave it, and grievously afflict it, four hundred years.

Then came a famine upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress: and our fathers found no provisions.

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

He brought them forth, after performing miracles and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what hath happened to him.

The God of this people Israel selected our fathers, and exalted the people during their abode in the land of Egypt, and with a mighty arm brought he them out of it.

And destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he distributed their territory to them by lot.

Now as the fourteenth night was passing, whilst we were driving about in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the sailors imagined that some land was near to them:

And when the day broke, they knew not the land: but they observed a certain creek with a beach, into which they resolved, if they could, to run the vessel aground.

But the centurion, desirous to preserve Paul, withheld them from their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim to jump overboard first, and reach the land: