Acts 7:5

5 yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he had no child.

Acts 7:5 In-Context

3 and said to him, 'Depart from your land and from your kindred and go into the land which I will show you.'
4 Then he departed from the land of the Chalde'ans, and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living;
5 yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he had no child.
6 And God spoke to this effect, that his posterity would be aliens in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and ill-treat them four hundred years.
7 'But I will judge the nation which they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
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