"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

"But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.

He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'

and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'

"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"

You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

"When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

"Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,

'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'or what is the place of my rest?

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

"This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' -- God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.

But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.'

The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'

They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

But Solomon built him a house.

Didn't my hand make all these things?'