1. Then the high priest said, “Are these things true?”
2. So he replied, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
3. and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’
4. Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.
5. He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.
6. But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.