Acts 7:4
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.
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- Gen 12:4-5 : 4 So Abram left, just as the LORD had told him to do, and Lot went with him.(Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.) 5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.
- Gen 11:31-32 : 31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.
- Isa 41:2 : 2 Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.
- Isa 41:9 : 9 you whom I am bringing back from the earth’s extremities, and have summoned from the remote regions– I told you,“You are my servant.” I have chosen you and not rejected you.
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- Acts 7:2-32 verses86%
2So 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,
3and said to him,‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’
- Gen 15:7-82 verses79%
7The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
8But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”
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1The Obedience of Abram Now the LORD said to Abram,“Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.
- Acts 7:5-62 verses77%
5He 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.
6But 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.
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31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.
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3but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,
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1Joseph’s Dreams But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 13:17-182 verses73%
17Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”
18So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the LORD there.
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7“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath,‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.
- Gen 11:27-282 verses72%
27The Record of Terah This is the account of Terah.Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.
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7“You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.
- Gen 12:4-74 verses72%
4So Abram left, just as the LORD had told him to do, and Lot went with him.(Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)
5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.
6Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem.(At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)
7The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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27So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Heb 11:8-92 verses72%
8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
9By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
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4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
- Gen 26:2-32 verses71%
2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.
3Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
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1Abraham and Abimelech Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,
- Gen 15:4-52 verses70%
4But look, the LORD’s message came to him:“This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
5The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
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4You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”
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3And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.
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10Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.
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13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”
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17“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,
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4Jacob asked them,“My brothers, where are you from?” They replied,“We’re from Haran.”
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13and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.