Acts 7:8

Acts 7:8

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

10 and delivered him out of all his troubles, ^aand gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

11 ^aNow a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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The covenant of circumcision (diaqhkhn peritomhv). A covenant marked by (genitive) circumcision (no article) of which circumcision is the sign (Romans 4:11) as set forth in Genesis 17:9-14. In the ancient Greek diaqhkh was usually will (Latin, testamentum) and sunqhkh was used for covenant (sun, together, rather than dia, between). But the LXX and the N.T. use diaqhkh for covenant (will in Hebrews 9:15 f.) as Lightfoot on Galatians 3:16 says: "The LXX translation and New Testament writers probably preferred diaqhkh as better expressing the

free grace of God than sunqhkh."

And so (kai outwv). After the covenant was made and as a sign and seal of it.

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