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

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and thus he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.