Acts 7:2-16

2And 1Stephen said, “Listen to me, 23brothers and fathers! 4The God of glory 5appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in 6Haran, 3and He said to him, ‘7Go from your country and your relatives, and come to the land which I will show you.’ 48Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in 9Haran. And 10from there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living. 5But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, 11He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he had no child. 6But 12God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be strangers in a land that was not theirs, and 13they would enslave and mistreat them for four hundred years. 7‘And whatever nation to which they are enslaved I Myself will judge,’ said God, ‘and 14after that they will come out and 15serve Me in this place.’ 8And He 16gave him 17the covenant of circumcision; and so 18Abraham fathered Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and 19Isaac fathered Jacob, and 20Jacob, the twelve 21patriarchs.

9“The patriarchs 22became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him, 10and rescued him from all his afflictions, and 23granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and his entire household.

11“Now 24a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers 25could find no food. 12But 26when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time. 13And on the second visit, 27Joseph 28made himself known to his brothers, and 29Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh. 14Then 30Joseph sent word and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, 31seventy-five 3233people in all. 15And 34Jacob went down to Egypt, and he and our fathers died there. 16And they were brought back from there to 3536Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of 37Hamor in 38Shechem.