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Acts 7:7-9
New Century Version
Acts 7:7-9
New Century Version
7 But I will punish the nation where they are slaves. Then your descendants will leave that land and will worship me in this place.’[a] 8 God made an agreement with Abraham, the sign of which was circumcision. And so when Abraham had his son Isaac, Abraham circumcised him when he was eight days old. Isaac also circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob did the same for his sons, the twelve ancestors[b] of our people.
9 “Jacob’s sons became jealous of Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him
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- 7:6–7 ‘Your descendants . . . place.’ Quotation from Genesis 15:13–14 and Exodus 3:12.
- 7:8 twelve ancestors Important ancestors of the people of Israel; the leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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