Later text
Acts 7:4BSB
So 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.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 7:4 → Genesis 24:10
Allusion
Earlier text
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor's hometown in Aram-naharaim.
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Earlier text
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
Earlier text
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Earlier text
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Significance
Stephen traces Abraham's migration in stages — "Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out... into this land where you are now living" (Acts 7:4). The precision underscores that every step of the patriarch's journey was under God's direction, from Ur through Haran (Genesis 11:31; 24:10) into Canaan — yet Abraham arrived to possess nothing but a promise. God led him the whole way and gave him no ground, teaching from the first that the covenant rests on the word of God, not on holdings of land. The pilgrim called out of a pagan city to a home he would receive only by faith and finally by resurrection (Hebrews 11:8-10) marks the path of all who follow the God who brings his people out in order to bring them in through Christ.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression