Deeds (Act) of Apostles 7:1-38

¹And the prince of priests said to Stephen, Whether these things have them so?

²Which said, Brethren and fathers, hear ye. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before that he dwelt in Charran,

³and said to him, Go out of thy land, and of thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall show to thee.

⁴Then he went out of the land of Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran. And from thence after that his father was dead, he translated him into this land, in which ye dwell now.

⁵And he gave not to him heritage in it, neither a pace of a foot, but he promised to give him it into possession, and to his seed after him, when he had not a son.

⁶And God spake to him, That his seed shall be a comeling or a guest in an alien land, and they shall make them subject to servage, and shall evil treat them, four hundred years and thirty or four hundred years;

⁷and I shall judge the folk to whom they shall serve, saith the Lord. And after these things they shall go out, and they shall serve to me in this place.

⁸And he gave to him the testament of circumcision; and so he engender-ed Isaac, and circumcised him in the eighth day. And Isaac engendered Jacob, and Jacob engendered the twelve patriarchs.

⁹And the patriarchs had envy to Joseph, and sold him into Egypt. And God was with him,

¹⁰and delivered him of all his tribulations, and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And he ordained him sove-reign on Egypt, and on all his house.

¹¹And hunger came into all Egypt, and Canaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found not meat.

¹²But when Jacob had heard, that wheat was in Egypt, he sent our fathers first.

¹³And in the second time Joseph was known of his brethren, and his kin was made known to Pharaoh.

¹⁴And Joseph sent, and called Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy and five men or souls.

¹⁵And Jacob came down into Egypt, and was dead, he and our fathers;

¹⁶and they were translated into Sychem, and were laid in the sepulchre, that Abraham bought by price of silver of the sons of Emmor, the son of Sychem.

¹⁷And when the time of promise came nigh, which God had acknowl-edged to Abraham, the people waxed, and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸till another king rose in Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

¹⁹This beguiled our kin, and torment-ed our fathers, that they should put away or should put out their young children, for they should not live.

²⁰In the same time Moses was born, and he was loved or accepted of God; and he was nourished three months in the house of his father.

²¹And when he was put out in the flood, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and nourished him into her son.

²²And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and works.

²³But when the time of forty years was full-filled to him, it rose up into his heart, that he should visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

²⁴And when he saw a man suffering wrong, he avenged him, and did vengeance for him that suffered the wrong, and killed the Egyptian.

²⁵For he guessed that his brethren should understand, that God should give to them health by the hand of him; but they understood not.

²⁶For in the day pursuing he appeared to them chiding, and he accorded or reconciled them in peace, and said, Men, ye be brethren; why annoy ye each other?

²⁷But he that did the wrong to his neighbour, putted him away, and said, Who ordained thee prince and dooms-man on us?

²⁸Whether thou wilt slay me, as yesterday thou killedest the Egyptian?

²⁹And in this word Moses flew, and was made a comeling in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

³⁰And when he had ful filled forty years, an angel appeared to him in fire of flame of a bush, in desert of the mount of Sinai.

³¹And Moses saw, and wondered on the sight. And when he nighed to behold, the voice of the Lord was made to him,

³²and said, I am God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. Moses was made trembling, and durst not behold.

³³But God said to him, Do off the shoes of thy feet, for the place in which thou standest is holy earth.

³⁴I seeing saw the tormenting or the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I heard the mourning of them, and came down to deliver them. And now come thou, and I shall send thee into Egypt.

³⁵This Moses whom they denied, saying, Who ordained thee prince and doomsman on us? God sent this prince and again-buyer, with the hand of the angel, that appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶This Moses led them out, and did wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in desert forty years.

³⁷This is Moses, that said to the sons of Israel, God shall raise to you a prophet of your brethren, and as me ye shall hear him.

³⁸This it is, that was in the church in wilderness, with the angel that spake to him in the mount of Sinai, and with our fathers; which took words of life to give to us.