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BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
the high
priest asked
Stephen
, “
Are these charges
true
? ”
And
the chief
priest said
, `
Are then
these things
so
? '
And Stephen
declared:
“Brothers
and fathers, listen
to
me!
The God of glory appeared
to our father Abraham while
he
was
still
in Mesopotamia, before he
lived
in Haran,
and he
said,
`Men,
brethren,
and fathers, hearken:
The God of the
glory did
appear
to our father Abraham ,
being
in Mesopotamia, before his
dwelling
in Haran,
and told
him, ‘Leave
your
country
and your
kindred and go
to the
land I will
show
you
. ’
and He
said
to
him, Go
forth
out
of
thy
land,
and out
of
thy
kindred ,
and come
to a
land that
I shall
shew
thee
.
So
Abraham
left
the land of the Chaldeans and
settled
in Haran .
After his father died
, God
brought
him out
of
that
place
and
into
this land where
you
are
now living.
`Then
having
come
forth
out
of
the land of the Chaldeans ,
he
dwelt
in Haran ,
and
from
thence,
after the
death
of
his father, He
did
remove
him to
this land wherein
ye
now dwell,
He gave him no inheritance here
, not even a foot
of
ground.
But
God
promised
to give possession
of
the
land
to Abraham
and his descendants,
even
though
he did
not
yet
have
a
child.
and
He gave him no inheritance in
it
, not even a footstep,
and
did
promise
to give it
to him
for
a
possession,
and to
his seed
after
him
--
he having
no
child.
God told
him
that his descendants
would
be foreigners
in a strange land, and that
they would
be
enslaved
and mistreated
four hundred years .
`And
God spake
thus,
That his seed
shall
be sojourning
in a strange land, and they shall
cause
it
to
serve,
and shall
do
it
evil
four hundred years ,
‘But
I
will
punish
the nation that
enslaves
them
, ’
God
said ,
‘
and afterward
they will
come forth and worship
Me in this place. ’
and
the nation whom
they
shall
serve
I
will
judge
, said God;
and after
these
things
they shall
come forth and shall
do
Me service
in this place.
Then
God
gave Abraham
the
covenant of circumcision, and Abraham
became
the
father
of
Isaac and circumcised
him on the eighth day .
And Isaac became
the
father
of
Jacob, and Jacob of
the twelve patriarchs .
`And
He
gave to
him
a
covenant of circumcision, and so
he
begat
Isaac ,
and did
circumcise
him on the eighth day ,
and Isaac `begat'
Jacob, and Jacob --
the twelve patriarchs ;
Because
the patriarchs were
jealous
of
Joseph
, they
sold him
as
a
slave
into
Egypt .
But
God was with him
and
the patriarchs, having
been
moved
with
jealousy,
sold Joseph
to
Egypt ,
and
God was with him ,
and rescued
him from
all his troubles.
He
granted
Joseph
favor
and wisdom in
the
sight
of
Pharaoh king of Egypt, who
appointed
him ruler
over Egypt and all his household
.
and did
deliver
him out
of
all his tribulations,
and gave
him
favour
and
wisdom before
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
he
did
set
him --
governor
over Egypt and all his house
.
Then
famine
and great
suffering
swept
across
Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could
not find
food.
`
And there
came
a
dearth
upon
all
the
land
of
Egypt and Canaan, and great
tribulation,
and
our fathers were
not finding
sustenance,
When
Jacob heard that there was grain
in Egypt, he
sent our fathers on
their
first visit.
and
Jacob having
heard that there was corn
in Egypt, sent forth
our fathers a
first time;
On
their
second visit,
Joseph revealed
his
identity
to his brothers
, and his
family
became known
to Pharaoh .
and
at
the
second time
was
Joseph made
known
to his brethren
, and Joseph's
kindred
became manifest
to Pharaoh ,
Then
Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives,
seventy
-five in
all.
and
Joseph having
sent ,
did
call
for his father Jacob ,
and all his kindred
- -
with
seventy
and
five souls
--
So
Jacob went down to Egypt, where
he
and our fathers died.
and
Jacob went down to Egypt, and died,
himself
and
our fathers ,
Their
bones
were carried back
to
Shechem
and placed
in the tomb that Abraham had
bought from
the
sons
of
Hamor
at
Shechem
for a price he
paid
in silver
.
and
they
were carried over
into
Sychem,
and were
laid
in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money
from
the
sons
of
Emmor,
of
Sychem
.
As the time drew
near
for
God
to
fulfill
His
promise to Abraham, our
people in
Egypt
increased greatly
in number.
`And
according
as the time of
the
promise was
drawing
nigh,
which
God
did
swear
to Abraham, the
people increased and
multiplied
in Egypt,
Then
another king, who knew
nothing
of
Joseph ,
arose
over
Egypt.
till
another king rose
, who had
not
known
Joseph ;
He
exploited
our people
and
oppressed
our fathers, forcing
them
to abandon
their infants
so
they would
die.
this
one,
having
dealt
subtilely
with
our kindred,
did
evil
to
our fathers, causing
to expose
their babes,
that
they might
not
live;
At
that
time Moses was born, and he was beautiful
in
the
sight
of
God .
For
three
months
he was nurtured
in his
father’s
house .
in
which
time Moses was born, and he was fair
to
God ,
and
he was brought
up
three
months
in the
house of
his
father;
When
he was
set
outside
, Pharaoh’s
daughter took him and brought
him up
as
her
own
son .
and
he having
been
exposed
, the
daughter of
Pharaoh
took him up,
and did
rear
him to
herself
for
a
son ;
So
Moses was educated
in all the
wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech
and action
.
and
Moses was taught
in all wisdom of the Egyptians ,
and he
was powerful in words
and in
works
.
When Moses
was
forty years old
, he
decided
to visit
his brothers
, the children
of Israel .
`And
when forty years were
fulfilled
to
him
, it
came
upon
his
heart
to look
after
his brethren
, the sons
of Israel ;
And when
he
saw
one of
them
being
mistreated
, Moses
went
to
his
defense
and avenged
him
by
striking
down
the Egyptian who
was
oppressing
him.
and having
seen
a
certain
one suffering
injustice
, he
did
defend,
and did
justice
to
the oppressed,
having
smitten
the
Egyptian ;
He assumed
his brothers
would
understand that God was
using
him
to
deliver
them,
but
they did not.
and
he was
supposing
his brethren
to
understand that God through
his
hand
doth
give
salvation;
and
they did not understand
.
The next
day he
came
upon
two
Israelites
who
were
fighting
, and
he tried
to reconcile
them, saying, ‘
Men, you
are
brothers.
Why
are you
mistreating
each
other
? ’
`On
the succeeding
day, also,
he shewed
himself
to them as
they
are
striving
, and
urged
them
to
peace,
saying, Men, brethren
are ye,
wherefore
do
ye
injustice
to
one
another
?
But
the
man
who
was
abusing
his
neighbor
pushed
Moses
aside
and said
, ‘
Who made
you
ruler and judge over us?
and he
who
is
doing
injustice
to
the
neighbour
, did
thrust
him
away,
saying,
Who set
thee
a
ruler and a
judge over us?
Do
you
want
to kill me as you
killed
the Egyptian yesterday
? ’
to kill me dost
thou
wish,
as thou
didst
kill
yesterday
the Egyptian?
At this remark
, Moses
fled
to
the land of Midian, where he lived
as
a
foreigner
and
had
two sons .
`And
Moses
fled
at this word
, and
became
a
sojourner
in
the land of Midian, where he begat
two sons ,
After
forty years had
passed
, an
angel
appeared to Moses
in the flames
of a
burning
bush
in
the
desert
near
Mount Sinai .
and
forty years having
been
fulfilled
, there
appeared to him
in the wilderness
of mount Sinai a
messenger
of
the
Lord,
in
a
flame
of
fire
of
a
bush,
When
Moses saw
it,
he
marveled
at the sight .
As
he approached
to look
more
closely
, the
voice of the Lord came
to
him :
and
Moses having
seen
did
wonder
at the sight ;
and
he drawing
near
to behold
, there
came
a
voice of the Lord unto
him ,
‘
I am the God of your
fathers ,
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ’
Moses
trembled
with
fear
and did
not dare
to
look.
I `
am '
the God of thy
fathers ;
the God of Abraham, and
the
God
of
Isaac, and the
God
of
Jacob. `
And Moses
having
become
terrified,
durst
not behold,
Then
the Lord said to him, ‘Take
off
your
sandals
, for the place where
you
are
standing
is holy ground .
and
the Lord said to him, Loose
the
sandal
of
thy
feet
, for the place in
which
thou
hast
stood
is holy ground ;
I have indeed
seen the oppression
of My people in Egypt .
I
have
heard
their groaning and have
come
down to deliver them .
Now come, I will send you
back
to Egypt. ’
seeing
I have seen the affliction
of My people that
`is'
in Egypt ,
and
their groaning I
did
hear,
and came
down to deliver them ;
and
now come, I will send thee
to Egypt.
This Moses, whom they had
rejected
with
the
words
, ‘
Who made
you
ruler and judge? ’
is
the
one whom
God sent
to
be
their
ruler and redeemer through
the angel
who appeared to him in the bush .
`
This Moses, whom they did
refuse
, saying,
Who did
set
thee
a
ruler and a
judge? this
one God a
ruler and a
redeemer did
send,
in
the hand
of
a
messenger
who appeared to him in the bush ;
He
led
them out
and
performed
wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at
the Red Sea, and for
forty
years
in the wilderness .
this
one
did
bring
them forth,
having
done
wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and
in
the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty
years;
This is the same
Moses who told
the Israelites,
‘
God will
raise up for
you
a
prophet
like me from
among
your
brothers
. ’
this is the Moses who did
say
to
the sons
of
Israel:
A
prophet
to
you
shall
the
Lord
your
God raise up out
of
your
brethren,
like to
me ,
him
shall
ye
hear
.
He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel
who spoke
to him on
Mount Sinai, and with our fathers .
And
he
received
living words
to pass
on
to us .
`This
is
he who
was in the assembly in the wilderness ,
with the messenger
who is
speaking
to him in
the
mount Sinai, and with our fathers who
did
receive
the
living oracles
to give
to us ;
But
our fathers refused
to obey
him.
Instead
, they
rejected
him
and in their hearts turned
back
to Egypt .
to
whom
our fathers did
not
wish
to become
obedient
, but
did
thrust
away,
and turned
back
in their hearts to Egypt ,
They
said
to Aaron, ‘
Make us gods who will
go before us !
As
for this Moses who led
us out of the land of Egypt, we do
not know
what has
happened to him. ’
saying
to Aaron, Make to
us gods who shall
go on
before us ,
for this Moses ,
who brought
us forth
out of the land of Egypt, we have
not known
what hath
happened to him.
At
that
time
they made a calf and offered
a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands .
`And
they made a calf in
those
days,
and brought
a sacrifice to the idol, and
were
rejoicing in the works of their hands ,
But
God turned
away
from
them
and gave
them over
to the
worship
of
the host of heaven, as it is
written in the book
of the prophets: ‘
Did you
bring
Me sacrifices
and
offerings
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
and
God did
turn,
and did
give
them up
to do
service
to
the host of the
heaven, according
as it hath
been
written in the scroll
of the prophets: Slain
beasts
and
sacrifices
did ye
offer
to
Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
You
have
taken
along
the tabernacle of Molech
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols
you
made to worship.
Therefore
I will send
you
into
exile
beyond Babylon. ’
and
ye
took
up
the tabernacle of Moloch,
and the star of your god Remphan
--
the figures
that
ye
made to bow
before
them,
and
I will remove
your
dwelling
beyond Babylon.
Our
fathers
had
the tabernacle of the Testimony with
them
in the wilderness .
It
was
constructed
exactly
as God
had
directed
Moses, according to the pattern
he had seen .
`
The tabernacle of the testimony was
among
our
fathers
in the wilderness ,
according
as He
did
direct,
who
is
speaking
to
Moses, to
make
it
according to the figure
that
he had seen ;
And
our fathers who
received it
brought
it
in with Joshua when
they
dispossessed
the nations God drove
out before
them.
It
remained
until
the time
of David,
which
also
our fathers having
in
succession
received ,
did
bring
in with Joshua ,
into
the possession
of
the
nations whom
God did
drive
out from
the presence
of our
fathers,
till
the
days
of
David,
who found favor
in
the
sight
of
God and asked
to provide
a dwelling
place
for the God of Jacob .
who found favour
before
God ,
and requested
to find
a tabernacle
for the God of Jacob ;
But
it
was
Solomon who
built the
house
for
Him.
and
Solomon built Him an
house
.
However,
the Most High does
not
dwell
in houses
made by
human
hands .
As the prophet says
:
`But
the Most High in sanctuaries
made with
hands doth
not
dwell,
according
as the prophet saith
:
‘
Heaven is My throne and the earth is
My footstool .
What kind
of
house will you
build for
Me ,
says
the Lord, or where
will
My
place of repose
be
?
The
heaven `
is '
My throne ,
and the earth My footstool ;
what house will ye
build to
Me ?
saith
the Lord, or what
`is'
the
place of My
rest
?
Has
not My hand made all these things? ’
hath
not My hand made all these things?
You
stiff-necked people
with
uncircumcised hearts
and ears! You
always resist
the Holy Spirit ,
just
as your fathers did.
`Ye
stiff-necked and
uncircumcised in
heart
and in
ears! ye
do
always the Holy Spirit resist;
as your fathers --
also
ye;
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail
to
persecute? They even
killed those who foretold
the coming of the Righteous One .
And
now you
are
His
betrayers and murderers —
which of the prophets did not
your fathers persecute? and
they killed those who declared
before
about
the coming of the Righteous One ,
of
whom
now ye
betrayers and murderers have
become,
you
who received the law ordained
by angels
, yet
have
not kept
it. ”
who received the law by arrangement
of
messengers
, and
did
not keep
`
it '
. '
On
hearing this
, the
members
of
the
Sanhedrin
were enraged
, and they
gnashed
their
teeth at him .
And
hearing these
things
, they
were cut
to
the
hearts
, and did
gnash
the
teeth at him ;
But
Stephen,
full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently
into
heaven and
saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at
the right hand of God .
and
being
full of the Holy Spirit, having
looked stedfastly
to
the
heaven ,
he
saw the glory of God ,
and Jesus standing on
the right hand of God ,
“Look,”
he said, “
I see heaven
open
and the Son of Man standing at
the right hand of God. ”
and
he said, `Lo,
I see the
heavens
having
been
opened,
and the Son of Man standing on
the right hand of God. '
At
this
they covered
their
ears
, cried out in
a loud voice, and rushed
together
at
him .
And
they, having
cried out with
a loud voice, stopped
their
ears,
and did
rush
with
one
accord
upon
him ,
They
dragged
him out
of the city and
began
to
stone
him .
Meanwhile
the witnesses laid
their garments at the feet of a young man named
Saul .
and
having
cast
him forth
outside
of the city ,
they
were
stoning
`
him '
--
and
the witnesses did
put
down
their garments at the feet of a young man called
Saul --
While
they were stoning him,
Stephen appealed
, “
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit .”
and
they were stoning Stephen, calling
and
saying,
`
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit ;'
Falling
on
his
knees, he cried out
in
a loud voice, “
Lord, do
not hold
this sin against
them.”
And when
he
had
said
this, he fell asleep.
and
having
bowed
the
knees, he cried with
a loud voice, `
Lord, mayest
thou
not lay
to
them
this sin ;'
and this having
said
, he fell asleep.
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