kjv@Acts:7:1 @ Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
kjv@Acts:7:2 @ And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
kjv@Acts:7:3 @ And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
kjv@Acts:7:4 @ Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
kjv@Acts:7:5 @ And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
kjv@Acts:7:6 @ And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
kjv@Acts:7:7 @ And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
kjv@Acts:7:8 @ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
kjv@Acts:7:9 @ And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
kjv@Acts:7:10 @ And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
kjv@Acts:7:11 @ Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
kjv@Acts:7:12 @ But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
kjv@Acts:7:13 @ And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
kjv@Acts:7:14 @ Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
kjv@Acts:7:15 @ So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
kjv@Acts:7:16 @ And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
kjv@Acts:7:17 @ But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
kjv@Acts:7:19 @ The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.