1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
   2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken;
  The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham,
  when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
  Charran,
   3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country,
  and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I
  shall shew thee.
   4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans,
  and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his
  father was dead, he removed him into this land,
  wherein ye now dwell.
   5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so
  much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he
  would give it to him for a possession, and to his
  seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
   6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should
  sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring
  them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred
  years.
   7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage
  will I judge, said God: and after that shall they
  come forth, and serve me in this place.
   8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and
  so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the
  eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat
  the twelve patriarchs.
   9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph
  into Egypt: but God was with him,
  10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and
  gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh
  king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt
  and all his house.
  11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt
  and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers
  found no sustenance.
  12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt,
  he sent out our fathers first.
  13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to
  his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known
  unto Pharaoh.
  14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to
  him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen
  souls.
  15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and
  our fathers,
  16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the
  sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of
  the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
  17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which
  God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and
  multiplied in Egypt,
  18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
  19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil
  entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their
  young children, to the end they might not live.
  20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding
  fair, and nourished up in his father's house three
  months:
  21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took
  him up, and nourished him for her own son.
  22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
  Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
  23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into
  his heart to visit his brethren the children of
  Israel.
  24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended
  him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote
  the Egyptian:
  25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood
  how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they
  understood not.
  26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as
  they strove, and would have set them at one again,
  saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to
  another?
  27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him
  away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over
  us?
  28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian
  yesterday?
  29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger
  in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
  30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared
  to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of
  the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
  31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and
  as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord
  came unto him,
  32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of
  Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
  Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
  33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from
  thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy
  ground.
  34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my
  people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their
  groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now
  come, I will send thee into Egypt.
  35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made
  thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be
  a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel
  which appeared to him in the bush.
  36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed
  wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the
  Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children
  of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up
  unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye
  hear.
  38 This is he, that was in the church in the
  wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the
  mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the
  lively oracles to give unto us:
  39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him
  from them, and in their hearts turned back again into
  Egypt,
  40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us:
  for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the
  land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
  41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered
  sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of
  their own hands.
  42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the
  host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the
  prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me
  slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty
  years in the wilderness?
  43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the
  star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to
  worship them: and I will carry you away beyond
  Babylon.
  44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the
  wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses,
  that he should make it according to the fashion that
  he had seen.
  45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in
  with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom
  God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto
  the days of David;
  46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a
  tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
  47 But Solomon built him an house.
  48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made
  with hands; as saith the prophet,
  49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
  what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what
  is the place of my rest?
  50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
  51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and
  ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your
  fathers did, so do ye.
  52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers
  persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed
  before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have
  been now the betrayers and murderers:
  53 Who have received the law by the disposition of
  angels, and have not kept it.
  54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the
  heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
  55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up
  stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and
  Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
  56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and
  the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
  57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped
  their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
  58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and
  the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young
  man's feet, whose name was Saul.
  59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and
  saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
  60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,
  Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he
  had said this, he fell asleep.

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