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- 7:1 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
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- 7:2 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- And he said, "Hear me, brethren R301 and fathers! The R302 God of glory appeared R303 to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, F150
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- 7:3 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- and said to him, 'LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME INTO THE LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.'
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- 7:4 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. F151 From R304 there, after his father died, {God} had him move to this country in which you are now living.
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- 7:5 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and {yet,} even when he had no child, He R305 promised that HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM AS A POSSESSION, AND TO HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER HIM.
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- 7:6 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But God R306 spoke to this effect, that his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE ALIENS IN A FOREIGN LAND, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE F152 ENSLAVED AND MISTREATED FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.
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- 7:7 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- " 'AND WHATEVER NATION TO WHICH THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE I MYSELF WILL JUDGE,' said God, 'AND AFTER R307 THAT THEY WILL COME OUT AND SERVE F153 ME IN THIS PLACE.'
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- 7:8 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "And He gave R308 him the F154 covenant of circumcision; and so {Abraham} R309 became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac R310 {became the father of} Jacob, and Jacob R311 {of} the twelve patriarchs. R312
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- 7:9 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "The patriarchs became R313 jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. {Yet} God was with him,
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- 7:10 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted R314 him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.
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- 7:11 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "Now a R315 famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction {with it,} and our fathers could F155 find no food.
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- 7:12 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But when R316 Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers {there} the first time.
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- 7:13 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "On the second {visit} Joseph R317 made F156 himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's R318 family was disclosed to Pharaoh.
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- 7:14 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "Then Joseph R319 sent {word} and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five R320 persons F157 R321 {in all.}
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- 7:15 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "And Jacob R322 went down to Egypt and {there} he and our fathers died.
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- 7:16 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "{From there} they were removed to Shechem F158 R323 and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor F159 in Shechem. F158
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- 7:17 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But as the time R324 of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the R325 people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
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- 7:18 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- until THERE R326 AROSE ANOTHER KING OVER EGYPT WHO KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JOSEPH.
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- 7:19 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "It was he who took shrewd R327 advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose F160 R328 their infants and they would not survive.
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- 7:20 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "It was at this time that Moses R329 was born; and he was lovely in F161 the sight of God, and he was nurtured three months in his father's home.
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- 7:21 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "And after he had been set outside, Pharaoh's R330 daughter took F162 him away and nurtured him as her own son.
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- 7:22 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "Moses was educated in all the R331 learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.
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- 7:23 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But when he was approaching the age of forty, it R332 entered his mind F163 to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.
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- 7:24 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "And when he saw one {of them} being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.
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- 7:25 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance F164 through F165 him, but they did not understand.
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- 7:26 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?'
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- 7:27 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, 'WHO MADE YOU A RULER AND JUDGE OVER US?
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- 7:28 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- 'YOU DO NOT MEAN TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY, DO YOU?'
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- 7:29 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "At this remark, MOSES R333 FLED AND BECAME AN ALIEN IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN, F166 where he became R334 the father of two sons.
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- 7:30 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "After forty years had passed, AN R335 ANGEL APPEARED TO HIM IN THE WILDERNESS OF MOUNT Sinai, IN THE FLAME OF A BURNING THORN BUSH.
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- 7:31 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look {more} closely, there came the voice of the Lord:
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- 7:32 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- 'I AM THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB.' Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.
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- 7:33 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "BUT THE LORD SAID TO HIM, 'TAKE OFF THE SANDALS FROM YOUR FEET, FOR THE PLACE ON WHICH YOU ARE STANDING IS HOLY GROUND.
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- 7:34 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- 'I HAVE CERTAINLY SEEN THE OPPRESSION OF MY PEOPLE IN EGYPT AND HAVE HEARD THEIR GROANS, AND I HAVE COME DOWN TO RESCUE THEM; COME F167 R336 NOW, AND I WILL SEND YOU TO EGYPT.'
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- 7:35 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "This Moses whom they disowned, R337 saying, 'WHO MADE YOU A RULER AND A JUDGE?' is the one whom God sent F168 {to be} both a ruler and a deliverer with the help F169 of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.
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- 7:36 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "This man led them out, performing wonders R338 and signs F170 in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness R339 for forty years.
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- 7:37 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, 'GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE F171 ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN.'
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- 7:38 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "This is the one who was in the R340 congregation F172 in the wilderness together with the R341 angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and {who was} with our fathers; and he received living R342 oracles R343 to pass on to you.
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- 7:39 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated R344 him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
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- 7:40 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- SAYING R345 TO AARON, 'MAKE FOR US GODS WHO WILL GO BEFORE US; FOR THIS MOSES WHO LED US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT--WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.'
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- 7:41 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "At that time they R346 made a calf F174 and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the R347 works of their hands.
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- 7:42 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But God turned R348 away and delivered them up to serve F175 the host F176 of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'IT WAS NOT TO ME THAT YOU OFFERED VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES FORTY R349 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, WAS IT, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
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- 7:43 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- 'YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF THE GOD ROMPHA, F177 THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP. I ALSO WILL REMOVE YOU BEYOND BABYLON.'
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- 7:44 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "Our fathers had the R350 tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed {him} to make it according R351 to the pattern which he had seen.
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- 7:45 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought R352 it in with Joshua F178 upon dispossessing the nations F179 whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.
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- 7:46 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "{David} found favor in God's sight, and asked R353 that he might find a dwelling place for the God F180 of Jacob.
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- 7:47 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "But it was Solomon R354 who built a house for Him.
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- 7:48 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "However, the R355 Most High does not dwell in {houses} made by {human} hands; as the prophet says:
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- 7:49 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- 'HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS THE FOOTSTOOL OF MY FEET; WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME?' says the Lord, 'OR WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR MY REPOSE?
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- 7:50 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- 'WAS IT NOT MY HAND WHICH MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'
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- 7:51 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "You men who are stiff-necked R356 and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.
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- 7:52 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- "Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the R357 Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you R358 have now become;
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- 7:53 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- you who received the law as ordained R359 by angels, and {yet} did not keep it."
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- 7:54 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- Now when they heard this, they were cut R360 to the quick, and they {began} gnashing their teeth at him.
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- 7:55 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- But being full R361 of the Holy Spirit, he gazed R362 intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at R363 the right hand of God;
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- 7:56 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens R364 opened up and the R365 Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
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- 7:57 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse.
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- 7:58 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- When they had driven R366 him out of the city, they {began} stoning {him;} and the R367 witnesses laid R368 aside their robes at the feet of a R369 young man named Saul.
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- 7:59 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- They went on stoning Stephen as he called R370 on {the Lord} and said, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
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- 7:60 - [In Context|Original Greek]
- Then falling R371 on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do R372 not hold this sin against them!" Having said this, he fell F181 R373 asleep.
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FOOTNOTES: F150: I.e. west coast province of Asia Minor
F151: Lit into
F152: Or Sanhedrin
F153: Or Sanhedrin
F154: Greek Charran
F155: Greek Charran
F156: Lit enslave them and mistreat them
F157: Or worship
F158: Or a
F159: Lit were not finding
F160: Or was made known
F161: Lit souls
F162: Greek Sychem
F163: Greek Emmor
F164: Or put out to die
F165: Lit to God
F166: Or adopted him
F167: Lit heart
F168: Or salvation
F169: Lit through his hand
F170: Greek Madiam
F171: Lit and now come!
F172: Lit has sent
F174: Or attesting miracles
F175: Or as He raised up me
F176: Greek ekklesia
F177: Lit in those days
F178: Or young bull
F179: Or worship
F180: I.e. heavenly bodies
F181: Other mss spell it: Romphan, or Rempham, or Raiphan, or Rephan
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CROSS REFERENCES: R301: Acts 6:1
R302: Acts 13:8; 14:22; Galatians 1:23; 6:10; Jude 1:3,20
R303: John 4:48
R304: Matthew 27:32; Acts 2:10
R305: Acts 18:24
R306: Acts 15:23,41; 21:39; 22:3; 23:34; 27:5; Galatians 1:21
R307: Acts 16:6; 19:10; 21:27; 24:18
R308: Luke 20:1; Acts 4:1
R309: Matthew 5:22
R310: Matthew 26:59-61; Acts 7:58
R311: Matthew 24:15; Acts 21:28; 25:8
R312: Matthew 26:61
R313: Acts 15:1; 21:21; 26:3; 28:17
R314: Matthew 5:22
R315: Acts 22:1
R316: Psalms 29:3; 1 Corinthians 2:8
R317: Genesis 11:31; 15:7
R318: Genesis 12:1
R319: Genesis 11:31; 15:7
R320: Genesis 12:4,5
R321: Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 15:18; 17:8
R322: Genesis 15:13
R323: Exodus 3:12
R324: Genesis 17:10
R325: Genesis 21:2-4
R326: Genesis 25:26
R327: Genesis 29:31; 30:5; 35:23
R328: Acts 2:29
R329: Genesis 37:11,28; 39:2,21; 45:4
R330: Genesis 39:21; 41:40-46; Psalms 105:21
R331: Genesis 41:54; 42:5
R332: Genesis 42:2
R333: Genesis 45:1-4
R334: Genesis 45:16
R335: Genesis 45:9,10,17,18
R336: Genesis 46:26; Exodus 1:5; Deuteronomy 10:22
R337: Acts 2:41
R338: Genesis 46:1-7; 49:33; Exodus 1:6
R339: Genesis 23:16; 33:19; 50:13; Joshua 24:32
R340: Genesis 15:13
R341: Exodus 1:7
R342: Exodus 1:8
R343: Exodus 1:10,16
R344: Exodus 1:22
R345: Exodus 2:2; Hebrews 11:23
R346: Exodus 2:5,10
R347: 1 Kings 4:30; Isaiah 19:11
R348: Exodus 2:11; Hebrews 11:24-26
R349: Exodus 2:13
R350: Exodus 2:14; Acts 7:35
R351: Exodus 2:14
R352: Exodus 2:15,22
R353: Exodus 18:3,4
R354: Exodus 3:1; Isaiah 63:9
R355: Exodus 3:6; Matthew 22:32
R356: Exodus 3:5
R357: Joshua 5:15
R358: Exodus 3:7
R359: Exodus 3:10
R360: Exodus 2:14; Acts 7:27
R361: Exodus 12:41; 33:1; Hebrews 8:9
R362: Exodus 7:3; 14:21; John 4:48
R363: Exodus 16:35; Numbers 14:33; Psalms 95:8-10; Acts 7:42; 13:18; Hebrews 3:8
R364: Deuteronomy 18:15,18; Acts 3:22
R365: Exodus 19:17
R366: Acts 7:53
R367: Deuteronomy 32:47; Hebrews 4:12
R368: Romans 3:2; Hebrews 5:12; 1 Peter 4:11
R369: Numbers 14:3
R370: Exodus 32:1,23
R371: Exodus 32:4,6
R372: Revelation 9:20
R373: Joshua 24:20; Isaiah 63:10; Jeremiah 19:13; Ezekiel 20:39
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