1 And the high priest said, “Is it so concerning these
2 So he said, “Men—brothers and fathers—listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham
3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.’
4 Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans
5 And he did not give him an inheritance in it—not even a footstep
6 But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat
7 and the nation
8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac
9 And the patriarchs,
10 and rescued him from all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
11 And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.
12 So
13 And on the second
14 So Joseph sent
15 And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.
16 And they were brought back to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17 “But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt
18 until another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
19 This man deceitfully took advantage of our people
20 At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God.
21 and
22 And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23 “But when
24 And
25 And he thought his brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand.
26 And on the following day, he made an appearance to them
27 But the one who was doing wrong to
28 You do not want to do away with me
29 And at this statement, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
30 “And
31 And
32 ‘I
33 And the Lord said to him, ‘Untie the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
35 This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?’
36 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness
37 “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
38 This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who
39 to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected
40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him!’
41 And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing
42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets:
43 And you took along the tabernacle
44 The tabernacle of the testimony
45 and which,
46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the house
47 But Solomon built a house for him.
48 But the Most High does not live in
49 ‘Heaven
50 Did not my hand make all these
51 “
52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,
54 Now
55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven
56 And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57 But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one purpose.
58 And
59 And they kept on stoning Stephen
60 And falling to