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And he said, "Hear me, ^(a)brethren and fathers! ^(b)The God of glory ^(c)appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in ^[a]Haran,

and said to him, ‘^(d) Leave your country and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you .'

^(e)Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in ^[b]Haran. ^(f)From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, ^(g)He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him .

But ^(h)God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would ^[c] be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years .

‘ And whatever nation to which they will be in bondage I Myself will judge ,' said God, ‘ and ⁽ⁱ⁾ after that they will come out and ^[d] serve Me in this place .'