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1 Then said the high priest, are these things so? 2 Stephen answer'd, my brethren, and you my fathers, lend your attention. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 and said to him, quit your country, and your kindred, to go to the land which I shall shew thee. 4 thereupon he went out of Chaldea, and dwelt in Charran: from thence, after his father's death, he removed him to this very country where you now dwell. 5 he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of land: yet he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, tho' he had then no child. 6 God declar'd likewise, "that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, where they should be enslaved and abused four hundred years. 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." Acts 7:1-7, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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