Acts 7:6-8

Expanded Bible

⁶ This is what God said to him: ‘Your ·descendants [^Lseed] will be ·strangers [foreigners; resident aliens] in a ·land they don’t own [foreign land; land belonging to others; ^CEgypt]. The people there will make them slaves and will ·mistreat [oppress] them for four hundred years. ⁷ But I will ·punish [judge] the nation where they are slaves. Then ·your descendants [^Lthey] will leave that land and will worship me in this place [Gen. 15:13–14; Ex. 3:12].’ ⁸ God made an ·agreement [covenant; ^Ca treaty-like relationship] with Abraham, the sign of which was circumcision [Gen. 17:9–14]. And so when Abraham ·had his son [became the father of; ^Tbegat] Isaac, Abraham circumcised him when he was eight days old. Isaac ·also circumcised his son Jacob [or became the father of Jacob], and Jacob ·did the same for his sons, [or became the father of] the twelve ·ancestors of our people [patriarchs; ^Cthe twelve sons of Jacob who were the “fathers” of the twelve tribes of Israel].