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Acts 2:22‘Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;Acts 2:23this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified—ye did slay;Acts 2:24whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,Acts 2:25for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me—because He is on my right hand—that I may not be moved;Acts 2:26because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet—my flesh also shall rest on hope,Acts 2:27because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;Acts 2:28Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.Acts 2:29‘Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;Acts 2:30a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,Acts 2:31having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.Acts 2:32‘This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;Acts 2:33at the right hand then of God having been exalted—also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father—he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;Acts 2:34for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,Acts 2:35till I make thy foes thy footstool;Acts 2:36assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him—this Jesus whom ye did crucify.’Acts 7:1And the chief priest said, ‘Are then these things so?’Acts 7:2and 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,Acts 7:3and 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.Acts 7:4‘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,Acts 7:5and 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.Acts 7:6‘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,Acts 7:7and 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.Acts 7:8And 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;Acts 7:9and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,Acts 7:10and 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.Acts 7:11‘And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,Acts 7:12and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;Acts 7:13and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph’s kindred became manifest to Pharaoh,Acts 7:14and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred—with seventy and five souls—Acts 7:15and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,Acts 7:16and 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.Acts 7:17‘And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,Acts 7:18till another king rose, who had not known Joseph;Acts 7:19this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;Acts 7:20in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father;Acts 7:21and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;Acts 7:22and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.Acts 7:23‘And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;Acts 7:24and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;Acts 7:25and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.Acts 7:26‘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?Acts 7:27and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?Acts 7:28to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?Acts 7:29‘And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons,Acts 7:30and 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,Acts 7:31and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,Acts 7:32I 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,Acts 7:33and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;Acts 7:34seeing 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.Acts 7:35‘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;Acts 7:36this 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;Acts 7:37this 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.Acts 7:38‘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;Acts 7:39to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,Acts 7:40saying 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.Acts 7:41‘And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,Acts 7:42and 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?Acts 7:43and 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.Acts 7:44‘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;Acts 7:45which 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,