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God[a] told him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives and go to the land I’ll show you.’[b] So he left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. Then after the death of his father, God had him move to this country where you now live. God[c] gave him no property here,[d] not even a foot of land,[e] yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants[f] after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

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Footnotes

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