LXX Deuteronomy 2:5
3 ‘It is sufficient for you to encircle this mountain. Therefore, turn around to the north. 4 And command the people saying, “You are about to pass through the borders of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir.a And they will be afraid of you and will be very cautious of you. 5 Do not engage with them in battle, for I will not give to you from their land, not even a foot’s step, because I have given Mount Seir to the sons of Esau as a portion. 6 Buy provisions from them with silver, and you will eat and take water in moderation from them for silver, and you will drink.”’ 7 For the Lord our God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. Consider how you passed through that great and frightening wilderness. Look, for the forty years the Lord your God was with you, you were in need of nothing.
Acts 7:5
3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ 4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live. 5 He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child. 6 But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for 400 years. 7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God, ‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’
Notes and References
"... although God calls Abraham to the Promised Land, he reveals himself to Abraham in Mesopotamia, far to the east. In Luke’s narrative, the experience of God’s glory that Stephen infers in Genesis 12:1 will anticipate Stephen’s own in Acts 7:55. Genesis does not portray Abraham’s father as dying before Abraham’s departure for the promised land, but some other Jewish traditions do so. Although Abraham was the ideal man of God, neither he nor his descendants for four centuries were allowed to possess the Holy Land. Alluding to Genesis 17:8, Stephen in Acts 7:5 adapts it with inheritance language from Numbers and Deuteronomy and “not even a foot” from Deuteronomy 2:5. In Acts 7:6-7, Stephen uses especially Genesis 15:13 to anticipate a subsequent section of his speech, regarding Israel in Moses’ time ..."
Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (p. 336) InterVarsity Press, 2014