Acts, Chapter 7
{7:1} The [1>]kohen gadol[<1] said, "Are these things so?"
{7:2} He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory
appeared to our father Avraham, when he was in Aram-Naharayim, before
he lived in Charan, {7:3} and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and
from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'
{7:4} Then he came out of the land of the Kasdim, and lived in Charan.
From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land,
where you are now living. {7:5} He gave him no inheritance in it, no,
not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it
to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had
no child. {7:6} God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as
aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and
mistreated for four hundred years. {7:7} 'I will judge the nation to
which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they
come out, and serve me in this place.' {7:8} He gave him the covenant
of circumcision. So Avraham became the father of Yitzchak, and
circumcised him the eighth day. Yitzchak became the father of Ya`akov,
and Ya`akov became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
{7:9} "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Yosef, sold him
into Egypt. God was with him, {7:10} and delivered him out of all his
afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of
Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. {7:11} Now a
famine came over all the land of Egypt and Kana`an, and great
affliction. Our fathers found no food. {7:12} But when Ya`akov heard
that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
{7:13} On the second time Yosef was made known to his brothers, and
Yosef's race was revealed to Pharaoh. {7:14} Yosef sent, and summoned
Ya`akov, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. {7:15}
Ya`akov went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
{7:16} and they were brought back to Shekhem, and laid in the tomb
that Avraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Chamor
of Shekhem.
{7:17} "But as the time of the promise came close which God had
sworn to Avraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, {7:18}
until there arose a different king, who didn't know Yosef. {7:19} The
same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and
forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay
alive. {7:20} At that time Moshe was born, and was exceedingly
handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house. {7:21}
When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him
as her own son. {7:22} Moshe was instructed in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. {7:23} But when he
was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the
children of Yisra'el. {7:24} Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he
defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the
Egyptian. {7:25} He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by
his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
{7:26} "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and
urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why
do you wrong one another?' {7:27} But he who did his neighbor wrong
pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
{7:28} Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
{7:29} Moshe fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of
Midyan, where he became the father of two sons.
{7:30} "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire
in a bush. {7:31} When Moshe saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he
came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him, {7:32} 'I am the
God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzchak, and the
God of Ya`akov.' Moshe trembled, and dared not look. {7:33} The Lord
said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where
you stand is holy ground. {7:34} I have surely seen the affliction of
my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come
down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'
{7:35} "This Moshe, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler
and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the
hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. {7:36} This man led
them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Sea of Suf,
and in the wilderness for forty years. {7:37} This is that Moshe, who
said to the children of Yisra'el, 'The Lord our God will raise up a
prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.' {7:38} This is he
who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to
him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles
to give to us, {7:39} to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but
rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, {7:40} saying
to Aharon, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this
Moshe, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has
become of him.' {7:41} They made a calf in those days, and brought a
sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
{7:42} But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Yisra'el?
{7:43} You took up the tent of Molekh,
The star of your god Reifan,
The figures which you made to worship.
I will carry you away beyond Bavel.'
{7:44} "Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness,
even as he who spoke to Moshe commanded him to make it according to
the pattern that he had seen; {7:45} which also our fathers, in their
turn, brought in with Yehoshua when they entered into the possession
of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to
the days of David, {7:46} who found favor in the sight of God, and
asked to find a habitation for the God of Ya`akov. {7:47} But Shlomo
built him a house. {7:48} However, the Most High doesn't dwell in
temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
{7:49} 'heaven is my throne,
And the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord;
'Or what is the place of my rest?
{7:50} Didn't my hand make all these things?'
{7:51} "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you
always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. {7:52}
Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those
who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now
become betrayers and murderers. {7:53} You received the law as it was
ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"
{7:54} Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart,
and they gnashed at him with their teeth. {7:55} But he, being full of
the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory
of God, and Yeshua standing on the right hand of God, {7:56} and said,
"Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the
right hand of God!"
{7:57} But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
and rushed at him with one accord. {7:58} They threw him out of the
city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet
of a young man named Sha'ul. {7:59} They stoned Stephen as he called
out, saying, "Lord Yeshua, receive my Spirit!" {7:60} He kneeled down,
and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!"
When he had said this, he fell asleep.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:1} high priest
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