Acts 7:3 “and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land…”

Acts 7:3

and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

World English Bible

and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

American Standard Version

and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe thee.

Darby Translation

and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

Young's Literal Translation

and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.

Bible in Basic English

And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

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Cross references

“Get”

Genesis 12:1 Hebrews 11:8 Matthew 10:37 Luke 14:33 2 Corinthians 6:17

Genesis 12:1 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

Hebrews 11:8 · BSB

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

Matthew 10:37 · BSB

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Luke 14:33 · BSB

In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.

2 Corinthians 6:17 · BSB

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

“the land”

Genesis 15:7 Joshua 24:3 Nehemiah 9:8 Genesis 13:14–17

Genesis 15:7 · BSB

The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

Joshua 24:3 · BSB

But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

Nehemiah 9:8 · BSB

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You…

Genesis 13:14–17 · BSB

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

4So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.

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