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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.