Acts 7:1-10 ▼

1 And the high priests said; Are these things so?

2 And he said, Men, brothers and fathers, hear ye; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he migrated into Haran, and He said to him;

3 Come out from thy country and from thy kindred, and come hither into the land which I will show unto thee.

4 And after his father died he migrated himself thence into this country in which you now dwell,

5 and God gave him no inheritance in it, not the step of his foot; and he promised to give it to him, and his seed after him, for an inheritance, there being no child to him.

6 And thus God spoke, that his seed shall sojourn in a strange land, and they will enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.

7 And the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, says God, and after these things they shall come out and serve me in this place.

8 And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

9 And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him into Egypt:

10 and God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt; and he placed him governor over Egypt and all his house.