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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 (8th) 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

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