Acts 7:1-12 ▼

1 And the chief priest said, Hold these things thus?

2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye: The God of glory was sent to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

3 And he said to him, Come out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

4 Then having come out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Charran: and thence, after his father died, he transplanted him into this land, in which ye now dwell.

5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.

6 And God spake thus, That his seed shall be dwelling in a strange land; and it shall subjugate them, and inflict evil four hundred years.

7 And the nation which they serve will I judge, said God: and after these shall they go out, and shall serve me in this place.

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

9 And the patriarchs having been jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

10 And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house.

11 And a famine came upon the whole land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great pressure: and our fathers found no food.

12 And Jacob having beard wheat being in Egypt, sent our fathers first.