Acts 7:3
Good News Translation
and said to him, 'Leave your family and country and go to the land that I will show you.'

New Revised Standard Version
and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.’

Contemporary English Version
God told him, "Leave your country and your relatives and go to a land that I will show you."

New American Bible
and said to him, ‘Go forth from your land and [from] your kinsfolk to the land that I will show you.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

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Genesis 12:1 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:33 So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

Hebrews 11:8 By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.

the land.

Genesis 13:14-17 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. . . .

Genesis 15:7 And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

Joshua 24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia: and brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed,

Nehemiah 9:8 And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
2Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan. 3And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: and come into the land which I shall shew thee. 4Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.…
Cross References
Genesis 12:1
And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Acts 7:4
Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.

Acts 7:2
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