"The God of Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go;

"Then he gave him a covenant of circumcision, and under this covenant he became the father of Isaac, whom he circumcised on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve Patriarchs.

"But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and sent our ancestors there on their first visit.

"Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his family, numbering seventy-five souls, to come to him;

"and Jacob went down into Egypt.

"I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. "And Moses trembled and dared not gaze.

"David obtained favor with God, and asked permission to find a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.