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3 and said to him, a‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’  
4 Then ahe came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was bdead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.  
5 And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, aHe promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.  
6 But God spoke in this way: athat his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bbondage and oppress them four hundred years.  
7 a‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will bjudge,’ said God, c‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’  
8 aThen He gave him the covenant of circumcision; band so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; cand Isaac begot Jacob, and dJacob begot the twelve patriarchs.  

The Patriarchs in Egypt

9 a“And the patriarchs, becoming envious, bsold Joseph into Egypt. cBut God was with him  
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Acts 7:5

Not so much as to set his foot on (oude bhma podov). From Deuteronomy 2:5. Old word from bainw, to go, to step. "Stepping of a foot," only instance of this original meaning in the N.T. From this it comes to mean a platform reached by steps, official seat of a judge (Matthew 27:19). The field purchased by Abraham (Genesis 23:9-17) was not a gift from God.

Promised (ephggeilato). First aorist middle indicative of epaggellw, common verb. See Genesis 12:7; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 48:4 for this promise. So God appeared again to Abraham in a strange land.

In possession (eiv katasxesin). Late word, in LXX, and in N.T. only here and verse Acts 7:45. From katexw, to hold back, then to hold fast (or down), to possess. It was fulfilled in the descendants of Abraham.

When as yet he had no child (ouk ontov autw teknou). Genitive absolute with negative ouk rather than mh to emphasize actual absence of a child. He had only the promise of God about the land and the child.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 7:5:

John 19:13
Acts 7:45
Acts 20:32
Galatians 3:18

 

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