Acts 7
Reading Acts chapter 7 in the Darby Bible, public-domain text from 1890.
Verses 1–10
1 And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
2 And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. TheGod of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.
4 Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.
5 And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.
6 AndGod spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;
7 and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, saidGod; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.
8 And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
9 And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. AndGod was with him,
10 and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.
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