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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. Acts 7:1-7, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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