Acts 7:2-16

2Stephen declared, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.

3He said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and come here to the land that I will show you.’

4Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God moved him to this land where you now live.

5He gave him no inheritance in it—not even a foothold—yet He promised ‘to give it to him as a possession to him and to his descendants after him,’ even though he had no child.

6“But God spoke in this way, that his ‘descendants would be foreigners in a land belonging to others, and they would enslave and mistreat them for four hundred years.

7But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’

8“Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. So he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and so Isaac with Jacob, and Jacob with the twelve patriarchs.

9The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him.

10He rescued him out of all his troubles and granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

11“Famine and great suffering came over all Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could find no food.

12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

13On the second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.

14So Joseph sent and called for Jacob and all his relatives—seventy-five persons.

15Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.

16They were carried to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.