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Then having gone out from the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, He removed[a] him to this land in which you are now dwelling. And He did not give him an inheritance in it, not even the step of a foot. And He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him— there not being a child for him! But God spoke as follows [in Gen 15:13-14]: that his seed ‘will be a foreigner in a land belonging-to-another. And they will enslave it[b] and mistreat it for four-hundred years.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:4 Or, resettled.
  2. Acts 7:6 That is, Abraham’s seed (descendants), viewed as a collective whole.

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