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Acts 7:1-3
Lexham English Bible
Acts 7:1-3
Lexham English Bible
Stephen’s Defense
7 And the high priest said, “Is it so concerning these things?” 2 So he said, “Men—brothers and fathers—listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he[a] was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, 3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.’
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- Acts 7:2 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was”) which is understood as temporal
Acts 7:1-3
New International Version
Acts 7:1-3
New International Version
Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin
7 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers,(A) listen to me! The God of glory(B) appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.(C) 3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a](D)
Footnotes
- Acts 7:3 Gen. 12:1
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