Acts 7:3
1 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
4 So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
- KJV
- And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
- WEB
- and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’
- ASV
- and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
- DARBY
- and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.
- BLB
- and He said to him, ‘Go out of your country and from your kindred, and come into the land that I will show to you.’
- ÅB
- og sa til ham: Dra ut fra ditt land og fra din slekt, og gå til det land som jeg vil vise deg!
- OTB
- Og Han instruerte ham: ‘Forlat ditt land og din slekt, og dra til det landet jeg vil vise deg.’
- B1930
- og sa til ham: Dra ut fra ditt land og fra din slekt, og gå til det land som jeg vil vise dig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 12:1
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
Read in contextHebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
Read in contextGenesis 15:7
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Read in contextJoshua 24:3
But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
Read in contextLuke 14:33
In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:8
You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:17
“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
Read in contextMatthew 10:37
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
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