and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
Parallel translations
- WEB and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’
- KJV And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
- NKJV and said to him, ‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’
- NASB and He said to him, ‘Go from your country and your relatives, and come to the land which I will show you.’
- NLT God told him, ‘Leave your native land and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’
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Quick answer
God called Abraham to leave his land and kin for a land He would show him. Israel's history begins with God's call and Abraham's faith.
Overview
Stephen recalls God's initiating grace and Abraham's obedient response of faith. The point emphasizes that God works through call and promise, not through a particular place. This frames Stephen's argument that God's presence and purpose have never been limited to the temple or the land alone.
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- Gen 12:1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Gen 15:7The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
- Josh 24:3But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
- Matt 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Neh 9:8You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
- Luke 14:33In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
- Gen 13:14–17After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
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