\subsection{Acts 7}
\VS{1} So the chief priest said: Does he have these [things] thusly? 
\VS{2} So he spoke: 
Men brothers and fathers, hear [me]. The God of glory was seen by our father 
Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia before which he [was] dwelling in Charran. 
\VS{3} And he said to him: Go out from your land and your relatives, and come to 
the land which I will show you. 
\VS{4} Then having gone out from the land of 
[the] Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran. And from there after the death of his father 
he resettled him in this land in which you now dwell, 
\VS{5} and he did not 
give him [the] inheritance in it, not [even a] foot step [in it], and he promised to give to him 
possession of it and to his seed after him, while there was no child to him. 
\VS{6} So God spoke thusly, that his seed will be strangers in another's 
land, and they will enslave it and treat-it-evil-ly for four hundred years, 
\VS{7} and 
the nation by which they are enslaved I will judge, said God, and after 
these [things] they will come out and will serve me in this place. 
\VS{8} And he 
gave to them [the] contract of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and 
circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob the twelve 
patriarchs. 
\VS{9} And the patriarchs having been jealous of Joseph sold him 
to Egypt, and God was with him, 
\VS{10} and took him out of all his 
distresses, and gave to him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, 
and appointed him ruler over Egypt and his whole house. 
\VS{11} So [a] famine came upon all Egypt and Canaan, and [a] great 
distress, and our fathers were not finding food. 
\VS{12} So Jacob having heard [there] is food in Egypt, he first 
sent out our fathers. 
\VS{13} And in the second [time] Joseph was made known to 
his brothers, and Joseph's people became manifest to Pharaoh. 
\VS{14} So Joseph having sent [them], he summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, 
seventy five psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}. 
\VS{15} And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he came to 
[his] end, and [also] our fathers, 
\VS{16} and they were moved to Suchem and placed in 
the tomb which Abraham bought for the price of [a] field beside the sons of 
Emmor in Suchem. 
\VS{17} And just as the time of the promise drew near which 
God professed to Abraham, the people increased, and multiplied in Egypt, 
\VS{18} until another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 
\VS{19} This [one] having gotten the 
better\footnote{or ``taken advantage of by trickery''} of 
our people, treated-evil-ly the fathers by doing the abandonment of their infants 
so as not to preserve [them] zoe-alive\fnZoe{}. 
\VS{20} In the opportune-time\fnKairos{} Moses was born, and he was acceptable to God, 
who was reared for three months in the house of his father. 
\VS{21} But when he exposed him, Pharaoh's daughter took him 
up and reared him for herself for [a] son. 
\VS{22} And Moses was educated in 
all the wisdom of Egypt, and he was powerful in his words and deeds. 
\VS{23} Now as forty years time was fulfilled to him, it rose up upon his heart to 
visit his brothers the sons of Israel. 
\VS{24} And seeing [one] doing injustice, 
he retaliated, and did vengeance for the oppressed, having struck down the 
Egyptian. 
\VS{25} Now he thought his brothers understood that God would give them salvation through 
his hand, but they did not understand. 
\VS{26} And on 
the next day it was seen them fighting, and he reconciled them to peace 
saying: Men, you are brothers. Why do you do injustice to each other? 
\VS{27} But the [one] doing injustice to his neighbor refused him saying: Who 
appointed you ruler and judge over us? 
\VS{28} You don't want to kill me as 
you yesterday killed the Egyptian, [do you]? 
\VS{29} So Moses fled in this word, and 
became [a] dweller in the land Madiam, where he begat two sons. 
\VS{30} And 
when forty years were fulfilled, there was seen by him in the wilderness of 
the mount Sinai [an] angel in [the] flame of [a] firey bush. 
\VS{31} So when Moses saw 
he marveled at the sight, so when he came to examine, [the] voice of the Lord 
came to pass: 
\VS{32} I am the God [of your] fathers, the God [of] Abraham and Isaac and 
Jacob. Now Moses having become trembling, he did not dare to examine [it]. 
\VS{33} So the Lord said to him: Loose the sandals [of your] feet, for the place 
upon which you stand is holy ground\fnGe{}. 
\VS{34} Having seen, I have seen the 
oppression of my people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and have 
come down to take them out, and now come [and] I will send you to Egypt. 
\VS{35} This Moses, whom they denied saying: Who appointed you ruler and judge? God 
sent this [one] both ruler and deliverer with [the] hand of [the] angel seen to him in the bush. 
\VS{36} This [man] brought them out having done wonders and signs in [the] land 
of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness forty years. 
\VS{37} This 
is the Moses having said to the sons of Israel: God will raise to you [a] 
prophet like me from your brothers. 
\VS{38} This is the [one] having come to be 
in the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the 
mount Sinai and of our fathers, who showed [him] zoe-living\fnZoe{} oracles to give you, 
\VS{39} to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but they 
rejected [him] and turned in their hearts to Egypt, 
\VS{40} saying to Aaron: Make 
for us gods which will go before us. For this Moses, who brought us out of 
the land of Egypt, we do not know what has come to pass to him. 
\VS{41} And 
they made [a] calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol, and were 
cheered by the works of their hands. 
\VS{42} But God turned and delivered 
them to be ministering to the host of heaven, just as it is written in [the] 
scroll of [the] prophets:

\begin{verse}
Offerings and sacrifices you did not offer me \\
Forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel. \\
\VS{43} And you took the tent of Molech \\
And the star of the god Rompha, \\
The image which you made to be worshipping them \\
And I will move you beyond Babylon.
\end{verse}

\VS{44} The tent of the testimony was to our fathers in the wilderness, just 
as the [one] speaking commanded Moses to make it according to the image which he 
say, 
\VS{45} which our fathers who came after brought in with Joshua into 
the possession of the nations, whom God expelled from the face of our 
fathers, until the days of David, 
\VS{46} who found grace before God and requested\fnAiteo{} to be finding [a] 
tabernacle for the house\footnote{``house" \papyrus{74}\sinaiticus{}BD; ``God" \koine{} \vulgate{} } of Jacob. 
\VS{47} Now Solomon built to him [a] house. 
\VS{48} But the highest [one] does not dwell in what is made with hands. For just 
as the prophets says:

\begin{verse}
\VS{49} Heaven is my throne \\
And the land [a] footstool for my feet. \\
What sort of house will you build me, says [the] Lord, \\
Or what place of rest for me? \\
\VS{50} Did not my hand make all these [things]
\end{verse}

\VS{51} Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you always 
resisted the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, you also. 
\VS{52} Which of the 
prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those announcing 
beforehand concerning the coming of justice, of which you are now become 
traitors and murderers, 
\VS{53} who received the law to the ordinance of 
angels, and you do not keep it.

\VS{54} Now having heard these [things] they were infuriated in their hearts and 
gnashed their teeth upon him. 
\VS{55} But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having 
looked intently into heaven he saw [the] glory of God and Jesus standing at the 
right [hand] of God. 
\VS{57} But having cried out with [a] great voice, they stopped 
their ears, and rushed with one purpose upon him, 
\VS{58} and having thrown 
him out of the city, they were stoning [him]. And the witnesses laid down their 
garments beside the feet of [a] young man being called Saul. 
\VS{59} And they 
were stoning Stephen, who [was] calling out and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my 
spirit. 
\VS{60} And having knelt he cried out with [a] great voice: Lord do 
not place to them this sin. And having said this he fell asleep.
