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cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, wine and oil
and oxen and sheep abundantly, for there was
joy in Israel.
7:2–53 Stephen’s response does not seem to
Psalm 77:16–20
answer the high priest’s question. Instead, he
16 The waters saw You, O God; gave a masterful, detailed defense of the
The waters saw You, they were afraid; Christian faith from the Old Testament and
The depths also trembled. concluded by condemning the Jewish leaders
17 The clouds poured out water; for rejecting Jesus.
The skies sent out a sound;
Your arrows also flashed about. 7:2 The God of glory. A title used only here and
18 The voice of Your thunder was in the in Psalm 29:3.God’s glory is the sum of His attrib-
whirlwind; utes (Ex. 33:18,19). Abraham…Mesopotamia,
The lightnings lit up the world; before he dwelt in Haran. Genesis 12:1–4
refers to the repeat of this call after Abraham
The earth trembled and shook.
19 Your way was in the sea, had settled in Haran (ca. 500 miles northwest
of Ur). Evidently, God had originally called
Your path in the great waters, Abraham while he was living in Ur (Gen. 15:7;
And Your footsteps were not known. Neh. 9:7), then repeated that call at Haran
20 You led Your people like a flock (Gen. 11:31–12:3).
By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Proverbs 19:17–19
Me in this place.’ Then He gave him the
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17 He who has pity on the poor lends to
the LORD, covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham
And He will pay back what he has begot Isaac and circumcised him on the
eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob
given.
begot the twelve patriarchs.
18 Chasten your son while there is hope, 9 “And the patriarchs, becoming envious,
And do not set your heart on his sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him
destruction. 10 and delivered him out of all his troubles, and
gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of
19 A man of great wrath will suffer Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him gov-
punishment; ernor over Egypt and all his house. Now a
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For if you rescue him, you will have to famine and great trouble came over all the
do it again. land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers
found no sustenance. But when Jacob heard
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Acts 7:1–21 that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our
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Then the high priest said, “Are these fathers first. And the second time Joseph was
7 things so?” made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s
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And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen:
2 family became known to the Pharaoh. Then
The God of glory appeared to our father Abra- Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all
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ham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he his relatives to him, seventy-five people. So
dwelt in Haran, and said to him, ‘Get out of Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he
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your country and from your relatives, and and our fathers. And they were carried back
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come to a land that I will show you.’ Then he to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham
came out of the land of the Chaldeans and bought for a sum of money from the sons of
dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his Hamor, the father of Shechem.
father was dead, He moved him to this land in 17 “But when the time of the promise drew
which you now dwell. And God gave him no near which God had sworn to Abraham, the
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inheritance in it, not even enough to set his people grew and multiplied in Egypt till
foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, another king arose who did not know Joseph.
He promised to give it to him for a possession, 19 This man dealt treacherously with our peo-
and to his descendants after him. But God ple, and oppressed our forefathers, making
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spoke in this way: that his descendants would them expose their babies, so that they might
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dwell in a foreign land, and that they would not live. At this time Moses was born, and was
bring them into bondage and oppress them well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in
four hundred years. ‘And the nation to whom his father’s house for three months. But when
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they will be in bondage I will judge,’ said God, he was set out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him
‘and after that they shall come out and serve away and brought him up as her own son.
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