Acts 7:1-21 ▼

1 Then sayde the hye prest: Is it eue so?

2 He sayde: Deare brethren and fathers, herken to, The God of glorye appeared vnto or father Abraha, whyle he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

3 and sayde vnto him: Get ye out of thy coutre, and fro thy kynred, and come into a londe which I wil shewe ye.

4 The wente he out of the lande of the Caldees, and dwelt in Haran. And from thece, whan his father was deed, he brought him ouer in to this londe (where ye dwell now)

5 and gaue him no enheritauce therin, no not ye bredth of a fote: and promysed him, that he wolde geue it him to possesse, and to his sede after him, whan as yet he had no childe.

6 But thus sayde God vnto him: Thy sede shalbe a straunger in a straunge londe, and they shal make bonde men of them, and intreate the euell foure hundreth yeares:

7 and ye people whom they shal serue, wil I iudge, sayde God. And after that shal they go forth, and serue me in this place.

8 And he gaue him the couenaut of circucision. And he begat Isaac, and circucised him the eight daye. And Isaac begat Iacob and Iacob begat the twolue Patriarkes.

9 And the Patriarkes had indignacion at Ioseph, and solde hi in to Egipte. And God was with him,

10 and delyuered him out of all his troubles, and gaue him fauoure ad wyssdome i the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him prynce ouer Egipte and ouer all his house.

11 But there came a derth ouer all the londe of Egipte and Canaan, and a greate trouble, and oure fathers founde no sustenaunce.

12 But Iacob herde that there was corne in Egipte, and sent oure fathers out the first tyme.

13 And at the seconde tyme was Ioseph knowne of his brethren, and Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pharao.

14 But Ioseph sent out, and caused his father and all his kynred to be broughte, eue thre score and fyftene soules.

15 And Iacob wente downe in to Egipte, and dyed, both he and oure fathers

16 and were brought ouer vnto Siche, and layed in the sepulcre, that Abraham boughte for money of the children of Hemor at Sichem.

17 Now wha the tyme of the promes drue nye (which God had sworne vnto Abraha) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte,

18 tyll there rose another kynge, which knewe not of Ioseph.

19 The same dealte suttely wt oure kynred, and intreated oure fathers euell and made them to cast out the yonge children, that they shulde not remayne alyue.

20 At the same tyme was Moses borne, and was a proper childe before God, and was norished thre monethes in his fathers house.

21 But whan he was cast out, Pharaos doughter toke him vp, and norished him vp for hir awne sonne.