Acts 7:4-14

4 "¹Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. ²From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

5 "But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, ³He promised that HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM AS A POSSESSION, AND TO HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER HIM.

6 "But ⁴God spoke to this effect, that his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE ALIENS IN A FOREIGN LAND, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE ENSLAVED AND MISTREATED FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.

7 " 'AND WHATEVER * NATION TO WHICH THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE I MYSELF WILL JUDGE,' said God, 'AND ⁵AFTER THAT THEY WILL COME OUT AND SERVE ME IN THIS PLACE.'

8 "And He ⁶gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so ⁷Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and ⁸Isaac became the father of Jacob, and ⁹Jacob of the twelve ¹⁰patriarchs.

9 "The patriarchs ¹¹became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,

10 and rescued him from all his afflictions, and ¹²granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

11 "Now ¹³a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

12 "But ¹⁴when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

13 "On the second visit ¹⁵Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and ¹⁶Joseph's family was disclosed to Pharaoh.

14 "Then ¹⁷Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, ¹⁸seventy-five * ¹⁹persons in all.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 11:31; Genesis 15:7
• 2. Genesis 12:4, 5
• 3. Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:8
• 4. Genesis 15:13
• 5. Exodus 3:12
• 6. Genesis 17:10f
• 7. Genesis 21:2-4
• 8. Genesis 25:26
• 9. Genesis 29:31f; Genesis 30:5f; Genesis 35:23f
• 10. Acts 2:29
• 11. Genesis 37:11, 28; Genesis 39:2, 21; Genesis 45:4
• 12. Genesis 39:21; Genesis 41:40-46; Psalms 105:21
• 13. Genesis 41:54; Genesis 42:5
• 14. Genesis 42:2
• 15. Genesis 45:1-4
• 16. Genesis 45:16
• 17. Gen 45:9, 10, 17, 18
• 18. Genesis 46:26; Exodus 1:5; Deuteronomy 10:22
• 19. Acts 2:41

Footnotes

• [a] Gr "Charran"
• [b] Lit "enslave them and mistreat them"
• [c] Or "worship"
• [d] Or "a"
• [e] Lit "were not finding"
• [f] Or "was made known"
• [g] Lit "souls"