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God said to him, ‘Leave your country and your people, and go to the country I will show you.’[a]

“So Abraham left the country of Chaldea.[b] He went to live in Haran. After his father died, God sent him to this place, where you live now. But God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that in the future he would give Abraham this land for himself and for his children. This was before Abraham had any children.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:3 Quote from Gen. 12:1.
  2. Acts 7:4 Chaldea Or “Babylonia,” a land in the southern part of Mesopotamia. See verse 2.

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