Acts 7

the king version

Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?”

² And he said, “Men, brethren, and fathers, listen!^[1] The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,^[2] 3 and said unto him, ‘Get^[3] out of your country and from your kindred, and come into the land which I shall show you.’ _{(Gen. 12:1)} ⁴ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Haran; and from there,^[4] when his father was dead, He removed him into this land in which^[5] you now dwell.

⁵ And He gave him no^[6] inheritance in it — no, not so much as to set his foot on; yet He promised that He would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child. ⁶ And God spoke in this way:^[7]That his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat^[8] them evil for four hundred years. ⁷ ‘And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge,’ said God, ‘and after that shall they come forth, and serve Me in this place.’_{(Gen 15:13,14; Exo 3:12)}

⁸ And He gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham fathered^[9] Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth (8^th) day; and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered the twelve (12) patriarchs.

⁹ And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him, ¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹ “Now there came a dearth and great affliction over all the land of Egypt and Canaan,^[10] and our fathers found no sustenance. ¹² But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he first sent out our fathers. ¹³ And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and Joseph’s kindred were made known unto Pharaoh. ¹⁴ Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob to him and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

¹⁵ So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers. ¹⁶ And they were carried over into Shechem,^[11] and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a sum of money from^[12] the sons of Hamor,^[13] the father of Shechem.

¹⁷ “But when the time of the promise drew near,^[14] which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ until another king arose who knew not Joseph. _{(Exo. 1:8)} ¹⁹ The same dealt craftily^[15] with our kindred and ill-treated^[16] our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end that they might not live.

²⁰ In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly^[17] fair,^[18] and nourished up in his father’s house for three months. ²¹ And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and nourished him as^[19] her own son. ²² And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

²³ “And when he was fully forty (40) years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them being wronged,^[20] he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck^[21] the Egyptian, ²⁵ for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God, by his hand, would deliver them; but they understood not.

²⁶ And the next day he showed himself unto them as they fought,^[22] and would have set^[23] them at one^[24] again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’

²⁷ But he who did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’ _{(Exo 2:13-14)} ²⁹ Then Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian,^[25] where he fathered^[26] two sons.

³⁰ “And when forty (40) years were expired,^[27] there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai^[28] an Angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire in a bush. ³¹ When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, ³² saying ’I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Then Moses trembled and dared^[29] not behold. _{(Exo 3:6)}

³³ Then the Lord said to him, ‘Put off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ³⁴ I have seen, I have seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning and have^[30] come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.’_{(Exo 3:5–10)}

³⁵ “This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ - the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer, by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. _{(Exo 2:14)} ³⁶ He brought them out after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty (40) years.

³⁷ This is that Moses who said unto the children of Israel, ‘A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; Him shall you hear.’ _{(Deu 18:15)} ³⁸ This is he,
who in the church in the wilderness was with the Angel who spoke to him on^[31] Mount Sinai, and with our fathers,
who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

³⁹ To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying unto Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; for^[32] as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know^[33] not what has become of him.’ _{(Exo 32:1)}

⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴² “Then God turned, and gave them up to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

‘O you house of Israel,
have you offered to Me slain beasts and sacrifices
for^[34] the space of forty years in the wilderness?
⁴³ Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,^[35]
figures which you made to worship them.
And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’_{(Amos 5:25-27)}

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He had appointed, speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen, ⁴⁵ which also our fathers, who came later, brought in with Joshua^[36] into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers unto the days of David, ⁴⁶ who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. _{(Psa 132:5)} ⁴⁷ But Solomon built Him a house.

⁴⁸ “However, the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands, as says the prophet:

⁴⁹ ‘Heaven is My throne,
and the earth is My footstool.
What house will you build for Me, says the Lord,
or what is the place of My rest?
⁵⁰ Has not My hand made all these things?’_{(Isa 66:1-2)}

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so do you! ⁵² Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed^[37] those who showed before of the coming of the Just One; of Whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers, ⁵³ who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.”

⁵⁴ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed their teeth at^[38] him. ⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, ⁵⁶ and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

⁵⁷ Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, ⁵⁸ and cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” ⁶⁰ And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. _^[KING]

NOTES

Common Spelling updates:

1. thee – you
2. thy – your
3. spake – spoke
4. Holy Ghost – Holy Spirit
5. shew – show
6. which – who
7. that – who
8. ye – you (plural)
9. wilt – will
10. thou – you
11. diddest – did
12. standest – stand
13. shewed – showed
14. dwelleth – dwells
15. saith – says
16. hath – has
17. is – has
18. yea – yes
19. drave – drove
20. howbeit – however
21. them – those

Note: Historic present (see link).

^[1] hearken

^[2] Charran

^[3] get thee

^[4] thence

^[5] wherein

^[6] none

^[7] on this wise

^[8] entreat

^[9] begot

^[10] Chanaan

^[11] Sychem

^[12] of

^[13] Emmor

^[14] nigh

^[15] subtilly

^[16] evil entreated

^[17] exceeding – theos 2316: God, a god ^[Strong’s]

^[18] asteios 791: of the town, by impl. courteous, elegant. Usage: (lit: belonging to the city; then: witty, clever), elegant, pretty, fair, fine, beautiful, handsome. ^[Strong’s]

^[19] for

^[20] suffer wrong

^[21] smote

^[22] strove

^[23] Gk. reconciled

^[24] Gk. ‘as one’ or ‘in peace’

^[25] Madian

^[26] begat

^[27] Pléroó 4137: to make full, to complete

^[28] Sina

^[29] durst

^[30] am

^[31] in the

^[32] Gk. gar, 1063: for, indeed (a conjunc. used to express cause, explanation, inference or continuation); because

^[33] wot

^[34] by

^[35] Remphan

^[36] Jesus – Iésous 2424: Jesus or Joshua. Usage: Jesus; the Greek form of Joshua ^[Strong’s]

Jesus, the transliteration of the Hebrew term, 3091 /Lṓt ("Yehoshua"/Jehoshua, contracted to "Joshua") which means "Yahweh saves" (or "Yahweh is salvation") ^{[HELPS Word-studies © 1987, 2011 by Helps Ministries, Inc.]}

^[37] slain

^[38] on