"Brethren! It is permitted to speak to you freely concerning the patriarch David, that he both died, and was buried; and his tomb is among us till this day;

And He gave him a 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, moved with jealousy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

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