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Acts 7:12

King James Version (1769) with Strongs Numbers and Morphology

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
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.
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.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
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.
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
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?
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Hath not my hand made all these things?
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:
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
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.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.
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.