Godbey - Acts - 7

7:1  And the high priests said; Are these things so?

7:2  And he said, Men, brothers and fathers, hear ye; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he migrated into Haran, and He said to him;

7:3  Come out from thy country and from thy kindred, and come hither into the land which I will show unto thee.

7:4  And after his father died he migrated himself thence into this country in which you now dwell,

7:5  and God gave him no inheritance in it, not the step of his foot; and he promised to give it to him, and his seed after him, for an inheritance, there being no child to him.

7:6  And thus God spoke, that his seed shall sojourn in a strange land, and they will enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.

7:7  And the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, says God, and after these things they shall come out and serve me in this place.

7:8  And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

7:9  And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him into Egypt:

7:10  and God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt; and he placed him governor over Egypt and all his house.

7:11  And the famine came into all the land and Canaan, and great distress: and our fathers found no sustenance.

7:12  And Jacob hearing that there is food in Egypt, sent away our fathers first.

7:13  And the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and his race became manifest to Pharaoh.

7:14  And Joseph sending, called to him Jacob his father, and all the family, seventy-five souls.

7:15  And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he and our fathers died there.

7:16  And they were carried over into Shechem, and buried in a tomb which Abraham purchased from the sons of Emmor in Shechem with a sum of money.

7:17  When the time of the promise which God made with Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

7:18  until another king arose over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

7:19  He dealing fraudulently with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their infants, so that they should not live.

7:20  During which time Moses was born, and was beautiful to God; who was kept three months in the house of his father.

7:21  And he being exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him, and adopted him for a son to herself.

7:22  And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and was mighty in his words and works.

7:23  And when the time of the fortieth year was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

7:24  And seeing a certain one suffering affliction, he interposed, and executed vengeance in behalf of the oppressed one, slaying the Egyptian.

7:25  And he supposed that his brethren would understand that God through his hand is giving them salvation: but they did not recognize it.

7:26  On the following day, he appeared to them fighting, and undertook to reduce them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren; therefore do not injure one another.

7:27  And the one injuring his neighbor thrust him away, saying, Who appointeth you a leader and a judge over us?

7:28  whether do you wish to kill me, in the manner in which you slew the Egyptian yesterday?

7:29  And at this word Moses fled, and became a sojourner in the land of Midia, where he begat two sons.

7:30  And forty years having passed away, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of fire of the bramble bush.

7:31  And Moses, seeing the sight, was astonished: and he coming nigh to investigate, the voice of the Lord came:

7:32  I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembling, did not dare to investigate.

7:33  And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet: for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.

7:34  Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And come now, I will send thee into Egypt.

7:35  And this Moses whom they denied, saying, Who hath established thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent a ruler and deliverer, with the hand of an angel having appeared unto him in a bush.

7:36  He led them out, doing wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

7:37  This Moses is the one having said to the sons of Israel, A prophet will God raise up to you of your brethren, like unto me.

7:38  And this is the one being in the church in the wilderness with the angel speaking to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give unto us;

7:39  to whom our fathers were not willing to be obedient, but thrust him away, and turned back in their hearts towards Egypt,

7:40  saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him.

7:41  And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

7:42  And God turned away, and gave them up to serve the host of the heaven; as has been written in the book of the prophets: Slain victims and sacrifices you have not brought unto me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel.

7:43  And ye took up the shrine of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, images which you made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

7:44  And the tabernacle of testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, as the one speaking to Moses commanded him to make it according to the example he had seen;

7:45  which our fathers receiving, brought in along with Joshua in the dispossession of the nations, whom God drove out, from the face of our fathers, until the days of David,

7:46  who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob.

7:47  But Solomon built a house for him.

7:48  But the Most High dwelleth not in houses built with hands, as the prophet says,

7:49  Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool of my feet: What house will you build for me? says the Lord; Or what shall be the place of my rest?

7:50  Hath not my hand made all of these things?

7:51  Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.

7:52  Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? and they slew those proclaiming concerning the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you became:

7:53  who received the law in the administrations of angels, and did not keep it.

7:54  And hearing these words, they were cut through their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.

7:55  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

7:56  and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

7:57  And crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears, and unanimously rushed on him,

7:58  and casting him out from the city, they began to stone him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, called Saul:

7:59  and continued to stone Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

7:60  And putting down his knees, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, do not impute this sin to them. And saying this, he fell asleep.