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Acts|7:1|-|And the high priest said, Are these things so?
Acts|7:2|-|And he said, |1|Men, |a|brothers and fathers, listen. The God of |2b|glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in |c|Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in |d|Haran,
Acts|7:3|-|And said to him, |a|“Come out from your land and from your relatives, and come into the land which I will show you.”
Acts|7:4|-|Then he |a|came forth from the land of the |b|Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, after his father |c|died, He |1|removed him into this land, in which you now dwell.
Acts|7:5|-|Yet He did not give him an inheritance in it, not even a place to set his foot on; and He |a|promised to give it to him for a possession and to his |b|seed after him, while he had |c|no child.
Acts|7:6|-|And God spoke in this way that his seed would be a |a|sojourner in a |1|foreign land, and |2|they would |b|enslave them and mistreat them |3c|four hundred years.
Acts|7:7|-|“And whatever nation they will |a|serve as slaves I will judge,” said God, “and after these things they will come forth and |b|serve Me as priests in this place.”
Acts|7:8|-|And He gave to him a |a|covenant of circumcision; and thus Abraham begot |b|Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, |c|Jacob; and Jacob, the |d|twelve patriarchs.
Acts|7:9|-|And the patriarchs became |a|jealous of Joseph and |b|sold him into Egypt; yet God was |c|with him
Acts|7:10|-|And rescued him out of all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he |a|appointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house.
Acts|7:11|-|And a |a|famine came over all Egypt and Canaan as well as great affliction; and our fathers could find no |1|sustenance.
Acts|7:12|-|But when Jacob heard that there was |a|grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers out the first time.
Acts|7:13|-|And during the second time Joseph was |a|made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race became manifest to |b|Pharaoh.
Acts|7:14|-|And Joseph sent word and called for Jacob his |a|father and all his family, |1|seventy-five souls in all.
Acts|7:15|-|And |a|Jacob went down into Egypt; and he |b|ended his days, he and our fathers.
Acts|7:16|-|And they were carried over to Shechem and placed in the tomb which Abraham had |a|bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
Acts|7:17|-|But as the time of the |a|promise which God had assured to Abraham drew near, the people grew and were |b|multiplied in Egypt,
Acts|7:18|-|Until |1|another |a|king rose up over Egypt who did not know of Joseph.
Acts|7:19|-|This one dealt |a|craftily with our race and mistreated our fathers, so that they threw out their |b|babies in order that they would not be kept alive.
Acts|7:20|-|At this time |1|Moses was born and was |2|lovely to God. And he was nurtured |a|three months in his father’s house.
Acts|7:21|-|And when he was |1|thrown out, Pharaoh’s |a|daughter took him up and nurtured him as a son for herself.
Acts|7:22|-|And Moses was educated in all the |1a|wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in his words and works.
Acts|7:23|-|But when he was approaching forty years of age, it came into his heart to visit his |a|brothers, the sons of Israel.
Acts|7:24|-|And when he saw one of them being wronged, he defended him, and he avenged him who was being oppressed by striking the Egyptian dead.
Acts|7:25|-|And he supposed that his brothers understood that God through his hand was giving salvation to them; but they did not understand.
Acts|7:26|-|And on the following day he appeared to them as they were |a|fighting and tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, |1|Men, you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?
Acts|7:27|-|But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying, |a|“Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts|7:28|-|Do you want to do away with me the same way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?”
Acts|7:29|-|And Moses |a|fled at this word and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begot two |b|sons.
Acts|7:30|-|And when forty years had been fulfilled, an |1|Angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in the flame of a |a|thornbush fire.
Acts|7:31|-|And when Moses saw it, he marveled at the vision; and as he approached to examine it, there came the voice of the |1|Lord:
Acts|7:32|-||a|“I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.” And Moses trembled and dared not |1|examine it.
Acts|7:33|-|And the Lord said to him, |a|“Untie the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.
Acts|7:34|-||1a|I have surely seen the ill-treatment of My people who are in Egypt and have |b|heard their groaning, and I have come down to |c|rescue them. And now, come, I will send you into Egypt.”
Acts|7:35|-|This Moses, whom they refused, saying, |a|Who appointed you a ruler and a judge? this one God has sent as both a ruler and a redeemer, along with the hand of the |b|Angel who |1|appeared to him in the thornbush.
Acts|7:36|-|This man led them |a|out, doing |b|wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the |c|Red Sea and in the |d|wilderness for |e|forty years.
Acts|7:37|-|This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, |a|“A Prophet will God raise up unto you from your brothers, like me.”
Acts|7:38|-|This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the |a|Angel who spoke to him in |b|Mount Sinai and with our fathers, and who received living |c|oracles to give to us.
Acts|7:39|-|To him our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but thrust him away and |a|turned in their hearts to Egypt,
Acts|7:40|-|Saying to Aaron, |a|“Make gods for us who will go before us; for this Moses, who has led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”
Acts|7:41|-|And they made a |1a|calf in those days and brought up a sacrifice to the idol and were glad with the works of their hands.
Acts|7:42|-|But God turned and |a|delivered them up to |1|serve the |2b|host of heaven, even as it is written in the |3|book of the prophets, |c|“Did you offer slain beasts and sacrifices to Me for |d|forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts|7:43|-|And you took up the |1|tabernacle of |a|Moloch and the star of your god |2|Rompha, the images which you made to worship. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”
Acts|7:44|-|The |a|Tabernacle of the |b|Testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, even as He who spoke to Moses instructed him to make it, according to the |c|pattern which he had seen.
Acts|7:45|-|This tabernacle our fathers, having in their turn received, also brought in with |a|Joshua when they took |b|possession of the nations, whom God |c|drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of |d|David,
Acts|7:46|-|Who found favor before God and asked to find a |a|habitation for the |b|God of Jacob.
Acts|7:47|-|But Solomon |a|built Him a house.
Acts|7:48|-|Yet the |1|Most High does |2|not |a|dwell in that which is made by hands, even as the prophet says,
Acts|7:49|-|“Heaven is My throne, and the earth is a footstool for My feet. |1|What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?
Acts|7:50|-|Has not My hand made all these things?”
Acts|7:51|-|You |a|stiff-necked and uncircumcised in |b|hearts and |c|ears, you always |1|oppose the Holy |2|Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.
Acts|7:52|-|Which of the |a|prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the |b|righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,
Acts|7:53|-|You who received the |a|law as |1|ordinances of |b|angels and did not keep it.
Acts|7:54|-|Now as they |a|heard these things, they were |1|exasperated and |b|gnashed their teeth at him.
Acts|7:55|-|But being |1|full of the Holy Spirit, he looked intently into heaven and saw the |2a|glory of God and Jesus |3|standing at the |b|right hand of God;
Acts|7:56|-|And he said, Behold, I see the |1|heavens |a|opened up and the |b|Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
Acts|7:57|-|But they cried out with a loud voice and covered their ears and rushed upon him with one accord.
Acts|7:58|-|And they threw him |a|outside of the city and |b|stoned him. And the |c|witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called |1d|Saul.
Acts|7:59|-|And they stoned Stephen as he |1|called upon the Lord and said, Lord Jesus, receive my |a|spirit!
Acts|7:60|-|And |a|kneeling down, he cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do |1|not hold this sin against them. And when he had said this, he fell |b|asleep.
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