Acts 7:5

And he gave him none inheritance in it The first settlement of Abraham in Canaan is said (Genesis 12:6) to have been at the place of Sichem [Shechem] at the plain [rather, oak of Moreh. He next dwelt on the east of Bethel, and in both these places he probably purchased land, for he built an altar at each; and on returning from Egypt (Acts 13:3) he came "to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai," which he hardly could have done unless the land had been his own, for he "was very rich in cattle."

no, not so much as to set his foot on For the land, when God gave it, would be held in very different manner from that in which Abraham held the land which he had bought or hired.

yet he promised Better, andhe promised. The conjunction is the ordinary copulative.

that he would give it to him for a possession More literally, in possession. The promise "unto thy seed will I give this land" was first made (Genesis 12:7) when Abraham was at the place of Shechem, and in its greater fulness when he returned from Egypt (Acts 13:15-16).

when as yet he had no child We cannot learn from Holy Writ how long a time Abraham lived after the promise before Isaac was born, but we can see that it was a long period, for when he went down to Egypt Sarah was a fair woman in the prime of her beauty (Genesis 12:14), and she was "waxed old" (Acts 18:12) before her son was born.