Men, brethren, it is lawful to speak to you with boldness concerning the patriarch David, because he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

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

And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him into Egypt:

You see how great this man was, to whom the patriarch Abraham even gave the tenth part of the chief spoils.