Acts:7:1-53

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* Said and the high –priest : If then these things thus are ? * He and said : Men brethren and fathers , hear you . The God of the glory appeared to the father of us Abraham being in the Mesopotamia , before to dwell him in Charran . * And said to him : Go out from the land of thee , and from the kindred of thee , and come into a land , which to thee I may show . * Then going out from land of Chaldeans , he dwelt in Charran ; and thence , after the to have died the father of him , he caused to remove him into the land this , in which you now dwell ; * and not he gave to him inheritance in her , not even a foot –breadth ; and he promised to him to give for a possession her , and to the seed of him after him , not being to him a child . * Spoke and thus the God : That shall be the seed of him a stranger in a land foreign , and they will enslave it and they will oppress years four –hundred ; * and the nation , to which they may be enslaved , will judge I , said the God ; and after these things they shall come out , and shall render service to me in the place this . * And he gave to him a covenant of circumcision ; and thus he begot the Isaac , and circumcised him the day the eighth ; and the Isaac the Jacob , and the Jacob the twelve patriarchs . * And the patriarchs envying the Joseph sold into Egypt ; and was the God with him , * and delivered him out of all of the afflictions of him , and gave to him favor and wisdom in presence of Pharaoh king of Egypt , and placed him ruling over Egypt and whole the house of himself . * Came and a famine on whole the land of Egypt and Canaan , and affliction great ; and not found provisions of fathers of us . * Having heard and Jacob being grain in Egypt , he sent the fathers of us first . * And in the second was made known Joseph to the brothers of himself , and shown became to the Pharaoh the family of the Joseph . * Having sent and Joseph called for the father of himself Jacob , and all the kindred , in souls seventy –five . * Went down and Jacob into Egypt , and died he and the fathers of us . * And they were carried into Sychem , and were placed in the tomb , which bought Abraham for a price of silver from the sons of Emmor of the Sychem . * When but drew near the time of the promise , which swore the God to the Abraham , grew the people and were multiplied in Egypt ; * till for whom stood up a king another , who not knew the Joseph . * This having dealt deceitfully the family of us , ill –treated the fathers of us , of the to cause to be exposed the babes of them ; in order that not they might be preserved . * In which season was born Moses , and was beautiful to the God ; who was nursed months three in the house of the father . * Having exposed and him , took up him the daughter of Pharaoh , and nursed him herself for a son . * And was taught Moses in all wisdom of Egyptians ; was and powerful in words and in works of himself . * When but was completed to him forty years of time , it came up in the heart of him to visit the brethren of himself , the sons of Israel . * And seeing one being wronged , he defended , and did justice to him being oppressed , having smitten the Egyptian . * He thought and to understand the brethren of himself , that the God by hands of him gives to them salvation ; they but not understood . * In the but next day he appeared to those contending , and urged them to peace , saying : Men , brethren are you ; why wrong you each other ? * He but wronging the neighbor , thrust away him , saying : Who thee has appointed a ruler and a judge over us ? * Not to kill me thou wishest , in which manner thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian ? * Fled and Moses at the word this , and became a sojourner in land of Midian , where he begot sons two . * And being completed years forty , appeared to him in the desert of the mountain Sinai a messenger of Lord in a flame of fire of a bush . * The but Moses having seen admired the sight ; coming near and of him to observe , came a voice of Lord to him : * I the God of the fathers of thee , the God of Abraham , and the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob . Terrified and being Moses not dared to look . * Said and to him the Lord : Loose the sandals of the feet of thee ; the for place in which thou standest , ground holy is . * Having seen I saw the evil treatment of the people of me of that in Egypt , and the groaning of them I have heard , and am come down to deliver them ; and now come , I will send thee into Egypt . * This the Moses whom they denied , saying : Who thee appointed a ruler and a judge ? this the God a ruler and a redeemer sent by hand of a messenger of that having appeared to him in the bush . * This led out them , having done prodigies and signs in the Egypt , and in red sea , and in the desert , years forty . * This is the Moses , he saying to the sons of Israel : A prophet for you will raise up Lord the God from of the brethren of you , like me ; him you shall hear . * This is he being , in the congregation in the desert , with the messenger that speaking to him in the mountain Sinai and of the fathers of us , who received oracles living to give to us ; * to whom not were willing obedient to become the fathers of us , but thrust away , and turned back in the hearts of them into Egypt , * saying to the Aaron : Make for us gods , who shall go before us ; the for Moses this who led out us from land Egypt , not we know what has happened to him . * And they made a calf in the days those , and offered a sacrifice to the idol , and rejoiced in the works of the hands of them . * Turned and the God , and gave up them to serve the host of the heaven ; as it is written in book of the prophets : Not victims and sacrifices did you offer to me forty in the desert , house of Israel ? * And you took up the tabernacle of the Moloch and star of the god of you Remphan , the images , which you made to worship them ; and I will cause to remove you beyond Babylon . * The tabernacle of the testimony was with the fathers of us in the desert , as directed he speaking to the Moses , to make her according to the form which he had seen ; * which also brought having received by succession the fathers of us with Jesus in to the possession of the nations , which drove out the God from face of the fathers of us , till the days of David ; * who found favor in presence of the God , and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob . * Solomon but built for him a house . * But not the Most High in hand made things dwells , as the prophet says : * The heaven to me a throne , the and earth a footstool of the feet of me . What house will you build for me ? says Lord ; or what place of the dwelling of me ? * Not the hand of me made these things all ? * O stiff –necked , and uncircumcised in the heart and the ears ; you always the spirit the holy fight against , like the fathers of you also you . * Which of the prophets not persecuted the fathers of you ? and they killed those having foretold concerning the coming of the righteous , of whom now you betrayers and murderers have become ; * who received the law by injunctions of messengers , and not you kept .

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