Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

7 ¹ And the high priest said, “Do these things hold so?”

Stephen Defends Himself Before The Sanhedrin:

² And the one said, “Men, brothers, and fathers, listen—

God Promised Abraham’s Descendants Would Inherit The Land

“The God of ^[a] glory appeared to our father Abraham while being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelled in Haran, ³ and said to him [in Gen 12:1], ‘Go out from your land and from your relatives, and come to the land which I will show you’. ⁴ Then having gone out from the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, He removed^[b] him to this land in which you are now dwelling. ⁵ 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! ⁶ 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^[c] and mistreat it for four-hundred years. ⁷ And I will judge the nation in whichever they will serve-as-slaves’, said God. ‘And after these things, they will come out and worship Me’ in this place. ⁸ And He gave him the covenant of circumcision.

Abraham’s Children Moved To Egypt During a Famine

“And so he fathered Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.