(12)And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes; and coming upon him, they seized him, and brought him to the council, (13)and set up false witnesses, Who said: This man ceases not to speak words against this holy place, and the law. (14)For we have heard him say, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us. (15)And all that sat in the council, looking intently upon him, saw his face as the face of an angel. VII. AND the high priest said: Are then these things so? (2)And he said: Brethren, and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, (3)and said to him: Go forth from thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. (4)Then he went forth from the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran; and from thence, after his father was dead, he caused him to remove into this land, wherein ye now dwell. (5)And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot-breadth; and he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child. (6)And God spoke after this manner, that his seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they will bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years. (7)And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage I will judge, said God; and after that they shall come forth, and shall serve me in this place. (8)And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day, and Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. (9)And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him, (10)and delivered him out of 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 house. (11)And there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and a great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance. (12)But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, first sent out our fathers. (13)And at the second time, Joseph was recognized by his brothers; and the race of Joseph was made known to Pharaoh. (14)Then Joseph sent, and called for Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. (15)And Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers, (16)and were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.