Deeds (Act) of Apostles 7:32-60

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.

³⁹To whom our fathers would not obey, but putted him away, and were turned away in their hearts into Egypt,

⁴⁰saying to Aaron, Make thou to us gods, that shall go before us; for to this Moses that led us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is done to him.

⁴¹And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the maumet or the simulacrum; and they were glad in the works of their hands.

⁴²And God turned, and betook them to serve to the knighthood of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets, Whether ye, house of Israel, offered to me slain sacrifices, either sacrifices, forty years in desert?

⁴³And ye have taken the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, figures that ye have made to worship them; and I shall translate you into Babylon.

⁴⁴The tabernacle of witnessing was with our fathers in desert, as God disposed to them, and spake to Moses, that he should make it after the form that he saw.

⁴⁵Which also our fathers took with Jesus, that was Joshua, and brought into the possession of heathen men, which God putted away from the face of our fathers, till into the days of David,

⁴⁶that found grace with God, and asked that he should find a tabernacle to God of Jacob.

⁴⁷But Solomon builded the house to him.

⁴⁸But the high God dwelleth not in things made by hand, as he saith by the prophet,

⁴⁹Heaven is a seat to me, and the earth is the stool of my feet; what house shall ye build to me, saith the Lord, either what or which place is of my resting?

⁵⁰Whether mine hand made not all these things?

⁵¹With hard noll, and uncircumcised hearts and ears, ye withstand ever-more the Holy Ghost; and as your fathers, so ye.

⁵²Whom of the prophets have not your fathers pursued, and have slain them that before-told of the coming of the rightful or just man, whose traitors and manslayers ye were now?

⁵³Which took the law in ordinance of angels, and have not kept it.

⁵⁴And they heard these things, and were diversely tormented in their hearts, and they grinded, or gnashed, with teeth on him.

⁵⁵But when Stephen was full of the Holy Ghost, he beheld into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right half of the virtue of God.

⁵⁶And he said, Lo! I see heavens opened, and man’s Son or the Son of man standing on the right half of the virtue of God.

⁵⁷And they cried with a great voice, and stopped their ears, and made with one will an assault into him.

⁵⁸And they brought him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses did off their clothes, beside the feet of a young man, that was called Saul.

⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, that called God to help, saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

⁶⁰And he kneeled, and cried with a great voice, and said, Lord, set not to them this sin. And when he had said this thing, he died or he slept in the Lord.