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He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot;[a] yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him,[b] even though at the time he was childless. What God said to him was, ‘Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years. But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:5 Deuteronomy 2:5
  2. Acts 7:5 Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 15:4, 7, 18–21; 17:8; 24:7; 48:4
  3. Acts 7:7 Genesis 15:13–14, 16

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