g with Stephen.

6:10. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that
spoke.

6:11. Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of
blasphemy against Moses and against God.

6:12. And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes.
And running together, they took him and brought him to the council.

6:13. And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to
speak words against the holy place and the law.

6:14. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall
destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered
unto us.

6:15. And all that sat in the council, looking on him, saw his face as
if it had been the face of an angel.

Acts Chapter 7

Stephen's speech before the council. His martyrdom.

7:1. Then the high priest said: Are these things so?

7:2. Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory
appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
dwelt in Charan.

7:3. And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred:
and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

7:4. Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan.
And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this
land, wherein you now dwell.

7:5. And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot.
But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him,
when as yet he had no child.

7:6. And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange
country, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them
evil four hundred years.

7:7. And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the Lord):
and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in this
place.

7:8. And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac
and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob,
the twelve patriarchs.

7:9. And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God
was with him,

7:10. And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him
favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt. And he
appointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house.

7:11. Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great
tribulation: and our fathers found no food.

7:12. But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our
fathers first