Acts 7:5-9

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.

⁷God said, ‘I will punish the nation that enslaves them. Eventually they will leave and come here to worship me.’

⁸God also gave Abraham the agreement regarding circumcision, and so when Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac was the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of the twelve patriarchs.

⁹The patriarchs, who were jealous of Joseph, sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,