1 | Then said the
high priest, Are these things so? |
2 | And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of
glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
dwelt in Charran, |
3 | And
said unto him,
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into
the land which I shall shew thee.
Gen 12:1
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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. |
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.
Gen 13:15
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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.
Gen 15:13
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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.
Gen 15:14,16
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8 | And he gave him the covenant of
circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day;
and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. |
9 | And the patriarchs, moved with envy,
sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, |
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. |
11 | Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and
Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. |
12 | But when Jacob heard that
there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. |
13 | And at the second time Joseph was made
known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. |
14 | Then sent Joseph, and
called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen
souls. |
15 | So Jacob went
down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, |
16 | And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the
sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the
father of Sychem. |
17 | But
when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the
people grew and multiplied in Egypt, |
18 | Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. |
19 | The same dealt subtilly 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 exceeding fair,
and nourished up in his father's house three months: |
21 | And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's
daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. |
22 | And Moses was learned in all the
wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. |
23 | And when he was full forty years old,
it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. |
24 | And seeing one of them suffer
wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the
Egyptian: |
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
strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren;
why do ye wrong one to another? |
27 | But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying,
Who
made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Exod 2:14
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28 |
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian
yesterday?
Exod 2:14
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29 | Then fled
Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat
two sons. |
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. |
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, |
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.
Ex 3:6
Matt 22:32
Mark 12:26
Luke 20:37
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33 | Then said the Lord to him,
Put off thy shoes from thy
feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Exod 3:5
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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.
Exod 3:7,8,10
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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.
Exod 2:14
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36 | He brought them
out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in
the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. |
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.
Deut 18:18
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38 | This is he, that was in the church 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: |
39 | To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them,
and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, |
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.
Exod 32:1
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41 |
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. |
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,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years
in the wilderness?
Amos 5:25
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43 |
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond
Babylon.
Amos 5:26,27
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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.
Exod 25:40
26:30
Heb 8:5
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45 | Which also our
fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the
Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of
David; |
46 | Who found
favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. |
47 | But Solomon built him an
house. |
48 | Howbeit the
most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, |
49 |
Heaven is my throne, and
earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is
the place of my rest?
Isa 66:1
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50 |
Hath not my hand made all these things?
Isa 66:2
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51 | Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye
do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. |
52 | Which of the prophets have not
your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which 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. |
54 | When they heard these things,
they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. |
55 | But he, being full of the Holy
Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing on the right hand of God, |
56 | And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man
standing on the right hand of God. |
57 | Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
and ran upon him with one accord, |
58 | And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses
laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. |
59 | And they stoned Stephen,
calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. |
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. |