Acts 7:7-9

The Voice

⁷ God promised, “I will judge the nation that enslaves them,”^[a] and “I will bring them to this mountain to serve Me.”^{[b] 8} God gave him the covenant ritual of circumcision as a sign of His sacred promise. When Abraham fathered his son, Isaac, he performed this ritual of circumcision on the eighth day. Then Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered the twelve patriarchs.

⁹ The patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, so they sold him as a slave into Egypt. Even so, God was with him;