1 The high priest asked Stephen, “Are they telling the truth about you?”
2 Stephen answered:Friends, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he had moved to Haran.
3 God told him, “Leave your country and your relatives and go to a land that I will show you.”
4 Then Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran.After his father died, Abraham came and settled in this land where you now live.
5 God didn't give him any part of it, not even a square metre. But God did promise to give it to him and his family for ever, even though Abraham didn't have any children.
6 God said that Abraham's descendants would live for a while in a foreign land. There they would be slaves and would be ill-treated four hundred years.
7 But he also said, “I will punish the nation that makes them slaves. Then later they will come and worship me in this place.”