MNT(i)
1 And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
2 Stephen answered. "Listen, brothers and fathers. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
3 and said to him, "Leave your country and your kindred, and come to whatever land I will show you.
4 "So he left Chaldea and settled in Haran, and from there, after his father's death, God moved him to this land which you inhabit.
5 "But he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square yard of ground; yet he promised to bestow the land as a permanent possession on him and his posterity—he at that time being childless.
6 "What God said was this. "'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
7 "'And the nation, whichever it is, that enslaves them I will judge, said God, 'and after ward they shall come out, and they shall worship me in this place.
8 "Then he gave him a covenant of circumcision, and under this covenant he became the father of Isaac, whom he circumcised on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve Patriarchs.
9 "The patriarchs out of jealousy sold Joseph into Egypt.
10 "But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him grace and wisdom, when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him Governor over Egypt, and over all the royal household.
11 "Then there came a famine over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, so that our ancestors could not find food.
12 "But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and sent our ancestors there on their first visit.
13 "On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh was informed of Joseph's parentage.