1. “Is this true? ” the high priest asked.
2. “Brothers and fathers,” he said, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
3. and said to him:Get out of your countryand away from your relatives,and come to the land that I will show you.
4. “Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land you now live in.
5. He didn’t give him an inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but He promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.
6. God spoke in this way:His descendants would be strangersin a foreign country,and they would enslaveand oppress them 400 years.
7. I will judge the nationthat they will serve as slaves, God said.After this, they will come outand worship Me in this place.