Acts 7:1-16 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Acts 7:1-16

Stephen’s Defense

And the high priest said, “Are these things so?”
2 And he said, “Hear me, ^abrothers and fathers! ^bThe God of glory ^cappeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in ¹Haran, 3 and said to him, ‘^aLeave your country and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’ 4 ^aThen he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in ¹Haran. ^bFrom there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living. 5 But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and ^aHe promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his seed after him, even when he had no child. 6 But ^aGod spoke in this way, that his seed would be sojourners in a foreign land, and that they would ¹be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. 7 ‘And I Myself will judge the nation to which they will be enslaved,’ said God, ‘and ^aafter that they will come out and ¹serve Me in this place.’ 8 And He ^agave him ¹the covenant of circumcision; and so ^bAbraham was the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and ^cIsaac was the father of Jacob, and ^dJacob of the twelve ^epatriarchs.
9 “And the patriarchs, ^abecoming jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him, 10 and rescued him from all his afflictions, and ^agranted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he appointed him governor over Egypt and all his household.
11 “Now ^aa famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers ¹could find no food. 12 But ^awhen Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time. 13 And on the second visit ^aJoseph ¹made himself known to his brothers, and ^bJoseph’s family was disclosed to Pharaoh. 14 Then ^aJoseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, ^bseventy-five ¹^cpersons in all. 15 And ^aJacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died. 16 And from there they were removed to ¹^aShechem and placed in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of ²Hamor in ¹Shechem.