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Has My hand not made all these things?'
"But Solomon built Him a house.
Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
"till another king arose who did not know Joseph.
'Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'
"So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
"And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
"Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.
"whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,
"who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it."
"And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.
"However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
"Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.
"Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
"But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
"who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.
'Then the LORD said to him, "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
"And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him