Acts 7:8
“And he gaue him the couenant of Circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob begate the twelue Patriarchs.”
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Acts 7:8 Context
6And God spake on this wise, that his seede should soiourne in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and intreate them euill foure hundreth yeeres. 7And the nation to whom they shal bee in bondage, will I iudge, saide God: And after that shall they come forth, and serue me in this place. 8And he gaue him the couenant of Circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob begate the twelue Patriarchs. 9And the Patriarchs moued with enuie, sold Ioseph into Egypt: but God was with him, 10And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisedome in the sight of Pharao king of Egypt: and he made him gouernour ouer Egypt and all his house.
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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begat] Jacob; and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs.
- King James Version
"And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so {Abraham} became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac {became the father of} Jacob, and Jacob {of} the twelve patriarchs.
- New American Standard Version (1995)