Acts 7:4

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So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him to this land where you are now living.

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  • Gen 12:4-5 : 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people they had gained in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
  • Gen 11:31-32 : 31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there. 32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
  • Isa 41:2 : 2 Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He delivers nations before him and subdues kings. He turns them to dust with his sword, and like scattered straw with his bow.
  • Isa 41:9 : 9 I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, 'You are my servant; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.'

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  • Acts 7:2-3
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    86%

    2Stephen replied: 'Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was living in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran.

    3'He said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.'

  • Gen 15:7-8
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    79%

    7And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

    8But Abram said, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"

  • Gen 12:1
    78%

    1The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."

  • Acts 7:5-6
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    5But God gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at that time Abraham had no child.

    6God spoke to Abraham in this way: 'Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

  • Gen 11:31
    76%

    31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

  • Josh 24:3
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    3But I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 37:1
    73%

    1Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 13:17-18
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    17Arise, walk through the land, its length and its breadth, for I will give it to you.

    18So Abram moved his tent and went to live by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. There he built an altar to the LORD.

  • Gen 24:7
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    7The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there.

  • Gen 11:27-28
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    27This is the account of Terah’s family line: Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

    28While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

  • Neh 9:7
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    7You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

  • Gen 12:4-7
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    4So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

    5Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people they had gained in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

    6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the great tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were in the land.

    7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

  • Gen 35:27
    72%

    27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.

  • Heb 11:8-9
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    8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

    9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

  • Gen 28:4
    72%

    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.

  • Gen 26:2-3
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    71%

    2The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Stay in the land that I will show you.

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father.

  • Gen 20:1
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    1Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur, and he lived temporarily in Gerar.

  • Gen 15:4-5
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    70%

    4Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."

    5He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then He added, "So will your descendants be."

  • Gen 24:4
    70%

    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

  • Gen 13:3
    70%

    3He journeyed from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

  • Gen 28:10
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    10Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

  • Gen 31:13
    69%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'

  • Acts 7:17
    69%

    17As the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise He had made to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt.

  • Gen 29:4
    69%

    4Jacob said to them, 'My brothers, where are you from?' They replied, 'We are from Haran.'

  • Gen 28:13
    68%

    13And there was the Lord standing above it, and He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.'