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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’ |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’ |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30“Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord: |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’ |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35“This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’ |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt, |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’ |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44“Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David, |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47But it was Solomon who built a house for him. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says, |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49“‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Did not my hand make all these things?’ |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.” |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. |
| 58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. |
| 59[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 59And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” |
| 60[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 60And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. |
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