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Acts 7
1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken;
The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham,
when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
Charran,
3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country,
and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I
shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans,
and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his
father was dead, he removed him into this land,
wherein ye now dwell.
5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so
much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he
would give it to him for a possession, and to his
seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should
sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring
them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred
years.
7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage
will I judge, said God: and after that shall they
come forth, and serve me in this place.
8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and
so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the
eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat
the twelve patriarchs.
9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph
into Egypt: but God was with him,
10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and
gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh
king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt
and all his house.
11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt
and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers
found no sustenance.
12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt,
he sent out our fathers first.
13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to
his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known
unto Pharaoh.
14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to
him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen
souls.
15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and
our fathers,
16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the
sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of
the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which
God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and
multiplied in Egypt,
18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil
entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their
young children, to the end they might not live.
20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding
fair, and nourished up in his father's house three
months:
21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took
him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into
his heart to visit his brethren the children of
Israel.
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended
him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote
the Egyptian:
25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood
how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they
understood not.
26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as
they strove, and would have set them at one again,
saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to
another?
27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him
away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over
us?
28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian
yesterday?
29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger
in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared
to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of
the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and
as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord
came unto him,
32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from
thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy
ground.
34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my
people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their
groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now
come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made
thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be
a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel
which appeared to him in the bush.
36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed
wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the
Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children
of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up
unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye
hear.
38 This is he, that was in the church in the
wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the
mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the
lively oracles to give unto us:
39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him
from them, and in their hearts turned back again into
Egypt,
40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us:
for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the
land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered
sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of
their own hands.
42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the
host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the
prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me
slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty
years in the wilderness?
43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the
star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to
worship them: and I will carry you away beyond
Babylon.
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the
wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses,
that he should make it according to the fashion that
he had seen.
45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in
with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom
God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto
the days of David;
46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a
tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him an house.
48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made
with hands; as saith the prophet,
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what
is the place of my rest?
50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and
ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your
fathers did, so do ye.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers
persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed
before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have
been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of
angels, and have not kept it.
54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the
heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up
stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and
Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and
the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped
their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and
the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young
man's feet, whose name was Saul.
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and
saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,
Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he
had said this, he fell asleep.
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