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The cohen hagadol asked, "Are these accusations true?"
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and Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran
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and said to him, 'Leave your land and your family, and go into the land that I will show you.'
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So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.
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He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at the time he was childless.
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What God said to him was, 'Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years.
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But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,' God said, 'and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.'
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And he gave him b'rit-milah. So he became the father of Yitz'chak and did his b'rit-milah on the eighth day, and Yitz'chak became the father of Ya'akov, and Ya'akov became the father of the Twelve Patriarchs.
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"Now the Patriarchs grew jealous of Yosef and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But ADONAI was with him;
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he rescued him from all his troubles and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him chief administrator over Egypt and over all his household. t