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God[a] gave him no property here,[b] not even a foot of land,[c] yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants[d] after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

“This is what God promised: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and its people[e] would enslave them and oppress them for 400 years. ‘But I will punish the nation they serve,’ said God, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:5 Lit. He
  2. Acts 7:5 Lit. in it
  3. Acts 7:5 I.e. about half of a single stride, or about 1.5 feet
  4. Acts 7:5 Lit. seed
  5. Acts 7:6 Lit. they
  6. Acts 7:7 Cf. Gen 15:13-14; Exod 3:12