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(A) Stephen answered:

Friends, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he had moved to Haran.

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To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers,(A) listen to me! The God of glory(B) appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.(C)

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God told him, “Leave your country and your relatives and go to a land that I will show you.”

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

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  1. Acts 7:3 Gen. 12:1

(A) Abraham had faith and obeyed God. He was told to go to the land that God had said would be his, and he left for a country he had never seen.

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By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance,(A) obeyed and went,(B) even though he did not know where he was going.

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