Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Josnt in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him."

When he rose, he took the young child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt,

and remained there until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt have I called my son."

But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Josnt in Egypt,

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

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

and rescued him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and there he and our fathers died.

"But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

until there arose another king over Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.

I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, and I will send you to Egypt.'

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

the God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that the Lord who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.