“And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.”
'Leave your country and your people,' God said, 'and go to the land I will show you.' So he left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to the land where you are now living as a foreigner - Stephen quotes Genesis 12:1 and develops Abraham's call as the template for covenant faith: obedience to God's word (leaving country and people) before possession of land. Abraham is himself a foreigner (paroikos, sojourner) in the promised land, establishing that dwelling is temporary, not permanent.
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