ACTS 7:1-22
7:1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was 
with him,
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.
7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great 
affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers 
first.
7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's 
kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, 
threescore and fifteen souls.
7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
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.
7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to 
Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
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.
7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in 
his father's house three months:
7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished 
him for her own son.
7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty 
in words and in deeds.