<p>7:7 <i>And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God<em>-</em></i> This is added because Stephen appears to be summarizing the essence of God's word rather than making verbatim quotation.</p><p><em>And after that shall they come out and serve Me in this place</em>- This is neither a quotation from the Hebrew Masoretic text nor from the standard version of the Septuagint. The text of Gen. 15:14 reads: &quot;Afterward they will come out with great wealth&quot;. Apparently Stephen is alluding to Ex. 3:12: &quot;When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain&quot;. Perhaps this is why the 'quotation' is introduced by the otherwise strange comment that &quot;God spoke in this way&quot; (:6). The essence of what Stephen understood God to say is quoted as if it is actual quotation. This kind of thing is common in Rabbinic exegesis. And yet why does Stephen change &quot;this mountain&quot;, of Sinai, to &quot;this place&quot;, a phrase commonly understood to refer to the temple? The point was that God could be served on a mountain, outside of Palestine, just as much as in the Jerusalem temple. For debate about the temple is the context of the whole speech.</p>