"Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

"And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,