“I [Abraham] have lifted up mine hand unto the Lord [Jehovah] the most high God” (Gen. xiv, 22).

“He [Isaac] said, For now the Lord [Jehovah] hath made room for us” (xxvi, 22).

“He [Jacob] said, Surely the Lord [Jehovah] is in this place” (xxviii, 16).

According to the writer in Exodus, Jehovah did not become the national God of Israel until after the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. According to the writer in Genesis, he was known to each of these patriarchs.

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“All the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were three score and ten” (xlvi, 27).

“Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, three score and fifteen souls” (Acts vii, 14).

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