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Acts 7

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 The cohen hagadol asked, "Are these accusations true?"

2 and Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran

3 and said to him, 'Leave your land and your family, and go into the land that I will show you.'

4 So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.

5 He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at the time he was childless.

6 What God said to him was, 'Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years.

7 But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,' God said, 'and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.'

8 And he gave him b'rit-milah. So he became the father of Yitz'chak and did his b'rit-milah on the eighth day, and Yitz'chak became the father of Ya'akov, and Ya'akov became the father of the Twelve Patriarchs.

9 "Now the Patriarchs grew jealous of Yosef and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But ADONAI was with him;

10 he rescued him from all his troubles and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him chief administrator over Egypt and over all his household. t

11 Now there came a famine that caused much suffering throughout Egypt and Kena'anu

12 But when Ya'akov heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

13 The second time, Yosef revealed his identity to his brothers, and Yosef's family became known to Pharaoh.

14 Yosef then sent for his father Ya'akov and all his relatives, seventy-five people.

15 And Ya'akov went down to Egypt; there he died, as did our other ancestors.

16 Their bodies were removed to Sh'khem and buried in the tomb Avraham had bought from the family of Hamor in Sh'khem for a certain sum of money.

17 "As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise God had made to Avraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased greatly,

18 until there arose another king over Egypt who had no knowledge of Yosef.

19 With cruel cunning this man forced our fathers to put their newborn babies outside their homes, so that they would not survive.

20 "It was then that Moshe was born, and he was beautiful in God's sight. For three months he was reared in his father's house;

21 and when he was put out of his home, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

22 So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.

23 "But when he was forty years old, the thought came to him to visit his brothers, the people of Isra'el.

24 On seeing one of them being mistreated, he went to his defense and took revenge by striking down the Egyptian.

25 He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

26 When he appeared the next day, as they were fighting, and tried to make peace between them by saying, 'Men, you are brothers! Why do you want to hurt each other?'

27 the one who was mistreating his fellow pushed Moshe away and said, 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

28 Do you want to kill me, the way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?'

29 On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.

30 "After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush.

31 When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of ADONAI,

32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov.' But Moshe trembled with fear and didn't dare to look.

33 ADONAI said to him, 'Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

34 I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.'

35 "This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.

36 This man led them out, performing miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

37 This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra'el, 'God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers'

38 This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by the angel that had spoken to him at Mount Sinai and by our fathers, the man who was given living words to pass on to us.

39 "But our fathers did not want to obey him. On the contrary, they rejected him and in their hearts turned to Egypt,

40 saying to Aharon, 'Make us some gods to lead us; because this Moshe, who led us out of Egypt - we don't know what has become of him.'a

41 That was when they made an idol in the shape of a calf and offered a sacrifice to it and held a celebration in honor of what they had made with their own hands.

42 So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the starsb - as has been written in the book of the prophets, 'People of Isra'el, it was not to me that you offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!

43 No, you carried the tent of Molekh and the star of your god Reifan, the idols you made so that you could worship them. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Bavel.'

44 "Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness. It had been made just as God, who spoke to Moshe, had ordered it made, according to the pattern Moshe had seen.

45 Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y'hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them. "So it was until the days of David.

46 He enjoyed God's favor and asked if he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Ya'akov

47 and Shlomo did build him a house.

48 But Ha'Elyon does not live in places made by hand! As the prophet says,

49 'Heaven is my throne,' says ADONAI, 'and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? What kind of place could you devise for my rest?

50 Didn't I myself make all these things?'

51 "Stiffnecked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You continually oppose the Ruach HaKodesh! You do the same things your fathers did!

52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who told in advance about the coming of the Tzaddik, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers! -

53 you! - who receive the Torah as having been delivered by angels - but do not keep it!"

54 On hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and ground their teeth at him.

55 But he, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, looked up to heaven and saw God's Sh'khinah, with Yeshua standing at the right hand of God.

56 "Look!" he exclaimed, "I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

57 At this, they began yelling at the top of their voices, so that they wouldn't have to hear him; and with one accord, they rushed at him,

58 threw him outside the city and began stoning him. And the witnesses laid down their coats at the feet of a young man named Sha'ul.

59 As they were stoning him, Stephen called out to God, "Lord Yeshua! Receive my spirit!"

60 Then he kneeled down and shouted out, "Lord! Don't hold this sin against them!" With that, he died;

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Then the high priest said, Are these things true?

2 And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

3 And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

7 And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.

8 And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

9 And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,

10 And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.

11 Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

12 But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

13 And the second time his brothers had a meeting with Joseph, and Pharaoh had knowledge of Joseph's family.

14 Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

15 And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

16 And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

18 Till another king came to power, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

19 He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.

20 At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:

21 And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.

22 And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.

23 But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

24 And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:

25 And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

26 And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?

27 But the man who was doing wrong to his neighbour, pushing him away, said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

28 Will you put me to death as you did the Egyptian yesterday?

29 And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.

30 At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

31 And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

32 I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

33 And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.

34 Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

35 This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

36 This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

37 This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

38 This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

40 And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

41 And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

42 But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

43 And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.

44 Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

45 Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,

46 Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

48 But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

49 Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

50 Did not my hand make all these things?

51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

53 You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.

54 Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.

55 But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.

56 And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.

57 But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

58 Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.

59 And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.

60 And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.