7Acts 7

1And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?'Select Acts 7:1

2and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,Select Acts 7:2

3and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.Select Acts 7:3

4`Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,Select Acts 7:4

5and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him--he having no child.Select Acts 7:5

6`And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,Select Acts 7:6

7and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.Select Acts 7:7

8`And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob--the twelve patriarchs;Select Acts 7:8

9and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,Select Acts 7:9

10and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him--governor over Egypt and all his house.Select Acts 7:10

11`And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,Select Acts 7:11

12and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;Select Acts 7:12

13and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred became manifest to Pharaoh,Select Acts 7:13

14and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred--with seventy and five souls--Select Acts 7:14

15and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,Select Acts 7:15

16and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.Select Acts 7:16

17`And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,Select Acts 7:17

18till another king rose, who had not known Joseph;Select Acts 7:18

19this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;Select Acts 7:19

20in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father;Select Acts 7:20

21and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;Select Acts 7:21

22and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.Select Acts 7:22

23`And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;Select Acts 7:23

24and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;Select Acts 7:24

25and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.Select Acts 7:25

26`On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?Select Acts 7:26

27and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?Select Acts 7:27

28to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?Select Acts 7:28

29`And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons,Select Acts 7:29

30and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,Select Acts 7:30

31and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,Select Acts 7:31

32I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,Select Acts 7:32

33and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;Select Acts 7:33

34seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.Select Acts 7:34

35`This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;Select Acts 7:35

36this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;Select Acts 7:36

37this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.Select Acts 7:37

38`This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;Select Acts 7:38

39to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,Select Acts 7:39

40saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him.Select Acts 7:40

41`And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,Select Acts 7:41

42and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Select Acts 7:42

43and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan--the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.Select Acts 7:43

44`The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;Select Acts 7:44

45which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,Select Acts 7:45

46who found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;Select Acts 7:46

47and Solomon built Him an house.Select Acts 7:47

48`But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:Select Acts 7:48

49The heaven is My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?Select Acts 7:49

50hath not My hand made all these things?Select Acts 7:50

51`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers--also ye;Select Acts 7:51

52which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,Select Acts 7:52

53who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it .'Select Acts 7:53

54And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;Select Acts 7:54

55and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,Select Acts 7:55

56and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'Select Acts 7:56

57And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,Select Acts 7:57

58and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning him --and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul--Select Acts 7:58

59and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'Select Acts 7:59

60and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.Select Acts 7:60