Acts 7:1-6

¹“Are these allegations true?” the high priest asked.

²“Brothers and fathers, listen to me!” Stephen replied. “God in his glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was living in Mesopotamia, before he moved to Haran.

³God told him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and go to the country that I'm going to show you.’

⁴So he left the country of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. After his father's death, God sent him here to this country where you now live.

⁵God didn't give Abraham an inheritance here, not even one square foot. But God did promise Abraham that he would give him and his descendants possession of the land, even though he had no children.

⁶God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign country, and that they would be enslaved there, and would be mistreated for four hundred years.