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Acts 7:6-8
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Acts 7:6-8
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
6 But God spoke as follows [in Gen 15:13-14]: that his seed ‘will be a foreigner in a land belonging-to-another. And they will enslave it[a] and mistreat it for four-hundred years. 7 And I will judge the nation in whichever they will serve-as-slaves’, said God. ‘And after these things, they will come out and worship Me’ in this place. 8 And He gave him the covenant of circumcision.
Abraham’s Children Moved To Egypt During a Famine
“And so he fathered Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.
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- Acts 7:6 That is, Abraham’s seed (descendants), viewed as a collective whole.
Acts 7:6-8
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Acts 7:6-8
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6 God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.(A) 7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’[a](B) 8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision.(C) And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth.(D) Later Isaac became the father of Jacob,(E) and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.(F)
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- Acts 7:7 Gen. 15:13,14
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