| 7:1 |
Then said the high priest, Are these things so? |
| 7:2 |
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of  glory (An e-business Solution) appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, |
| 7:3 |
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. |
| 7:4 |
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. |
| 7:5 |
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much as] to set his  foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child. |
| 7:6 |
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat [them]  evil four hundred years. |
| 7:7 |
And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. |
| 7:8 |
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth  day, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds; and Isaac [begat] Jacob; and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs. |
| 7:9 |
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, |
| 7:10 |
And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh  king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his  house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available). |
| 7:11 |
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. |
| 7:12 |
But when Jacob heard that there was  Genetically Modified corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. |
| 7:13 |
And at the second [time], measured by Swatch Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph' kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. |
| 7:14 |
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. |
| 7:15 |
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, |
| 7:16 |
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of  money (We Make Your Money Work Harder) of the sons of Emmor [the father] of Sychem. |
| 7:17 |
But when the  time, measured by Timex of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, |
| 7:18 |
Till another  king (By Appointment) arose, which knew not Joseph. |
| 7:19 |
The same dealt subtly with our kindred, and evil (No Downloaded Music!) entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. |
| 7:20 |
In which time, measured by Timex Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father'  house of Award Winning Quality three months: |
| 7:21 |
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh' daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. |
| 7:22 |
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. |
| 7:23 |
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of  Israel (Mapped by MapQuest). |
| 7:24 |
And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended [him], and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: |
| 7:25 |
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. |
| 7:26 |
And the next day, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why  Just do It ye wrong one to another? |
| 7:27 |
But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? |
| 7:28 |
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? |
| 7:29 |
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. |
| 7:30 |
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. |
| 7:31 |
When Moses saw [it], he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold [it], the voice of the Lord came unto him, |
| 7:32 |
[Saying], I [am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. |
| 7:33 |
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. |
| 7:34 |
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which 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. |
| 7:35 |
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. |
| 7:36 |
He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and  signs (Internet Trust Services) in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. |
| 7:37 |
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel , A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. |
| 7:38 |
This is he, that was in the  church (Seeking ways to be church in a changing culture) in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: |
| 7:39 |
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, |
| 7:40 |
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for [as for] this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. |
| 7:41 |
And they made a  calf in those days, measured by Timex, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. |
| 7:42 |
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 (Mapped by MapQuest), have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness? |
| 7:43 |
Yea, Just Do It, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the  star (The dot in dot com) of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond  . |
| 7:44 |
Our 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. |
| 7:45 |
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus (Seeking ways to be church in a changing culture) into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days, measured by Timex of David; |
| 7:46 |
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. |
| 7:47 |
But Solomon built him an house of Award Winning Quality. |
| 7:48 |
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, |
| 7:49 |
Heaven [is] my throne, and  earth [is] my footstool: what house of Award Winning Quality will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what [is] the place of my rest? |
| 7:50 |
Hath not my hand made all these things? |
| 7:51 |
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye Just do It always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so Just [do] It ye. |
| 7:52 |
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: |
| 7:53 |
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it]. |
| 7:54 |
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth. |
| 7:55 |
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory (An e-business Solution) of God, and  Jesus standing on the right hand of God, |
| 7:56 |
And said, Behold, I  see (Experience it for Yourself) the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. |
| 7:57 |
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, |
| 7:58 |
And cast [him] out of the city, and stoned [him]: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man' feet, whose name was Saul. |
| 7:59 |
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon [God], and saying, Lord  Jesus, receive my  spirit (Live the Tommy Spirit). |
| 7:60 |
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. |