Acts 6:15-7:16

English Standard Version

¹⁵ And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face ^(A)was like the face of an angel.

Stephen's Speech

7 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” ² And Stephen said:

^(B)“Brothers and fathers, hear me. ^(C)The God ^(D)of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, ^(E)before he lived in Haran, ³ and said to him, ^(F)‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ ^4 (G)Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And ^(H)after his father died, ^(I)God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. ⁵ Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised ^(J)to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, ^(K)though he had no child. ⁶ And God spoke to this effect—that ^(L)his offspring would ^(M)be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them ^(N)four hundred years. ⁷ ‘But ^(O)I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out ^(P)and worship me in this place.’ ⁸ And ^(Q)he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And ^(R)so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and ^(S)circumcised him on the eighth day, and ^(T)Isaac became the father of Jacob, and ^(U)Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

⁹ “And the patriarchs, ^(V)jealous of Joseph, ^(W)sold him into Egypt; but ^(X)God was with him ¹⁰ and rescued him out of all his afflictions and ^(Y)gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ^(Z)who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. ¹¹ Now ^(AA)there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. ^12 (AB)But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. ¹³ And ^(AC)on the second visit ^(AD)Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and ^(AE)Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. ¹⁴ And ^(AF)Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, ^(AG)seventy-five persons in all. ¹⁵ And ^(AH)Jacob went down into Egypt, and ^(AI)he died, he ^(AJ)and our fathers, ¹⁶ and ^(AK)they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that ^(AL)Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.