And said unto him, Come out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Haran. And after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell,

And he gave him none inheritance in it, [a]no not the breadth of a foot: yet he [b]promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:5 Not so much ground as to set his foot upon.
  2. Acts 7:5 The promise of the possession was certain and belonged to Abraham, though his posterity enjoyed it a great while after his death: and this is the figure Synecdoche.

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