Acts 7:1-7 ▼

1 Then the high priest asked, “Is this so?”

2 And he replied, “My brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he had settled in Haran,

3 and said to him, ‘Go forth from your land and [from] your kinsfolk to the land that I will show you.’

4 So he went forth from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he made him migrate to this land where you now dwell.

5 Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but he did promise to give it to him and his descendants as a possession, even though he was childless.

6 And God spoke thus, ‘His descendants shall be aliens in a land not their own, where they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years;

7 but I will bring judgment on the nation they serve,’ God said, ‘and after that they will come out and worship me in this place.’