Acts 7:1-13

Sawyer(i) 1 (5:4) And the chief priest said, Are these things then so? 2 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3 and said to him, Go out from your country and your kindred, and come to a land which I will show you. 4 Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And thence, after the death of his father, he removed into this land in which you now live. 5 And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a foot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no son. 6 And God said thus; that his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they shall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years; 7 and the nation which they shall serve will I judge, said God, and after that they shall come forth and serve me in this place. 8 (5:5) And he gave him the ordinance of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. 9 And the patriarchs envying Joseph sold him into Egypt; and God was with him 10 and delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and [he] made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 (5:6) And there came a famine on all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no provisions. 12 But Jacob hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent our fathers the first time; 13 and the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.