Chapter 7 Flashcards
Acts 7:1
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
Acts 7:2
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran
Acts 7:3
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew
thee.
Acts 7:4
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead,
he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
Acts 7:5
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to
him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
Acts 7:6
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into
bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
Acts 7:7
And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and
serve me in this place
Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts 7:10
And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Acts 7:11
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no
sustenance.
Acts 7:12
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
Acts 7:13
And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto
Pharaoh.
Acts 7:14
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Acts 7:16
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons
of Emmor the father of Sychem.
Acts 7:17
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in
Egypt,
Acts 7:18
Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
Acts 7:19
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children,
to the end they might not live.
Acts 7:20
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
Acts 7:21
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Acts 7:22
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Acts 7:23
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Acts 7:24
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: