Acts 7:19-53 The same dealt also deceitfully with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

Whiston⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ The same dealt also deceitfully with our kindred, and evil entreated [our] fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. ²⁰ In which time Moses was born, and was fair to God, and nourished up in his fathers house three months: ²¹ And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up and nourished [him] for [her] son. ²³ And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart lo visit his brethren the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong by one of that country, he defended [him,] and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. ²⁵ For he supposed his brethren would have understood, how that God by his hand would deliver them; but they understood not. ²⁶ And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they fought, and saw them injured, and [would have] made peace between them, saying, what do ye, Men and brethren; why do ye injure one another? ²⁷ But he that injured his neighbour, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? ²⁹ And Moses fled at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where be begat two sons. ³⁰ And afterwards when his forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina, anangel of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush. ³¹ When Moses saw [it,] he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold, the Lord spake unto him, saying, ³² And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and in deeds. ³² I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraam, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. ³³ And there came a voice to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place on which thou standest is holy ground. ³⁴ For I have seen also, I have seen the affliction of the people who is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. ³⁵ This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? the same did God send both a ruler and a deliverer, with the hand of an angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ He brought them out, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. ³⁷ This is that Moses who said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me. ³⁸ This is he that was in the church, in the wilderness, with the angel who spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us. ³⁹ Because our fathers would not obey, but rejected [him,] and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, ⁴⁰ Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. ⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴¹ Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts, and sacrifices, by the space of forty years in the wilderness? ⁴³ Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Rempham, figures which ye made, to worship them: and I will carry you away into the Parts of Babylon. ⁴⁴ Your fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. ⁴⁵ Which also our fathers that came after, brought in with Joshua into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of your fathers, unto the days of David. ⁴⁶ Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the house of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But Solomon built him an house. ⁴⁸ Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in places made with hands as saith the prophet, ⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or of what kind is the place of my rest? ⁵⁰ Hath not my hand made all these things? ⁵¹ Ye stiff necked, and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as did also your fathers, so [do] ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not they persecuted? and they have slain those who shewed before of the coming of the just one, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: ⁵³ Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it.]