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The patriarchs

From Ur to Goshen: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, stop by stop, and the peoples born of them.

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One family walks the whole land before it owns a field of it. Abraham leaves Ur for a country he has never seen; Isaac digs wells; Jacob flees, labours and comes home as Israel; Joseph is sold and rises in Egypt. Follow their roads stop by stop, and watch the kindred peoples appear around them: Ishmael, Moab and Ammon, Midian, Edom.

Abraham 1 moments

Isaac 1 moments

Jacob 1 moments

Joseph 1 moments