Hechos 7
Biblia del Jubileo
7 ¶ El príncipe de los sacerdotes dijo entonces: ¿Es esto así?
2 Y él dijo: Varones hermanos y padres, oíd: El Dios de la gloria apareció a nuestro padre Abraham, estando en Mesopotamia, antes que morara en Harán,
3 y le dijo: Sal de tu tierra y de tu parentela, y ven a la tierra que te mostraré.
4 Entonces salió de la tierra de los caldeos, y habitó en Harán; y de allí, muerto su padre, le traspasó a esta tierra, en la cual vosotros habitáis ahora;
5 y no le dio herencia en ella, ni aun para asentar un pie; mas le prometió que se la daría en posesión, y a su simiente después de él, no teniendo hijo.
6 Y le habló Dios así: Que su simiente sería extranjera en tierra ajena, y que los sujetarían a servidumbre y maltratarían, por cuatrocientos años.
7 Mas yo juzgaré, dijo Dios, a los gentiles de los cuales serán esclavos; y después de esto saldrán y me servirán en este lugar.
8 Y le dio el Pacto de la circuncisión; y así Abraham engendró a Isaac, y le circuncidó al octavo día; e Isaac a Jacob, y Jacob a los doce patriarcas.
9 Y los patriarcas, movidos de envidia, vendieron a José para Egipto; mas Dios era con él;
10 y le libró de todas sus tribulaciones, y le dio gracia y sabiduría en la presencia de Faraón, rey de Egipto, el cual le puso por gobernador sobre Egipto, y sobre toda su casa.
11 Vino entonces hambre en toda la tierra de Egipto y de Canaán, y grande tribulación; y nuestros padres no hallaban alimentos.
12 Y como oyera Jacob que había trigo en Egipto, envió a nuestros padres la primera vez.
13 Y en la segunda, José fue conocido de sus hermanos, y fue sabido de Faraón el linaje de José.
14 Y enviando José, hizo venir a su padre Jacob, y a toda su parentela, en número de setenta y cinco personas.
15 Así descendió Jacob a Egipto, donde murió él y nuestros padres;
16 los cuales fueron trasladados a Siquem, y puestos en el sepulcro que compró Abraham a precio de dinero de los hijos de Hamor de Siquem.
17 ¶ Pero cuando se acercaba el tiempo de la promesa, la cual Dios había jurado a Abraham, el pueblo creció y se multiplicó en Egipto,
18 hasta que se levantó otro rey que no conocía a José.
19 Este, usando de astucia con nuestro linaje, maltrató a nuestros padres, a fin de que pusieran en peligro de muerte sus niños, para que cesara la generación.
20 En aquel mismo tiempo nació Moisés, y fue agradable a Dios; y fue criado tres meses en casa de su padre.
21 Mas siendo puesto al peligro, la hija de Faraón le tomó, y le crió por hijo.
22 Y fue enseñado Moisés en toda la sabiduría de los egipcios; y era poderoso en sus dichos y hechos.
23 Y como se le cumplió el tiempo de cuarenta años, subió en su corazón el visitar a sus hermanos, los hijos de Israel.
24 Y como vio a uno que era injuriado, le defendió, e hiriendo al egipcio, vengó al injuriado.
25 Pero él pensaba que sus hermanos entendían que Dios les había de dar salud por su mano; mas ellos no lo habían entendido así.
26 Y al día siguiente, riñendo ellos, se les mostró, y los ponía en paz, diciendo: Varones, hermanos sois, ¿por qué os injuriáis los unos a los otros?
27 Entonces el que injuriaba a su prójimo, le rechazó, diciendo: ¿Quién te ha puesto por príncipe y juez sobre nosotros?
28 ¿Quieres tú matarme, como mataste ayer al egipcio?
29 A esta palabra Moisés huyó, y se hizo extranjero en tierra de Madián, donde engendró dos hijos.
30 ¶ Y cumplidos cuarenta años, el ángel del Señor le apareció en el desierto del monte de Sinaí, en fuego de llama de una zarza.
31 Entonces Moisés mirando, se maravilló de la visión; y acercándose para considerar, fue hecha a él voz del Señor:
32 Yo Soy el Dios de tus padres, el Dios de Abraham, y Dios de Isaac, y Dios de Jacob. Mas Moisés, temeroso, no osaba mirar.
33 Y le dijo el Señor: Quita los zapatos de tus pies, porque el lugar en que estás es tierra santa.
34 He visto, he visto la aflicción de mi pueblo que está en Egipto, y he oído el gemido de ellos, y he descendido para librarlos. Ahora pues, ven, te enviaré a Egipto.
35 A este Moisés, al cual habían rehusado, diciendo: ¿Quién te ha puesto por príncipe y juez? A éste envió Dios por príncipe y redentor con la mano del ángel que le apareció en la zarza.
36 Este los sacó, haciendo prodigios y milagros en la tierra de Egipto, y en el mar Bermejo, y en el desierto por cuarenta años.
37 Este es el Moisés, el cual dijo a los hijos de Israel: Un profeta os levantará el Señor Dios vuestro de vuestros hermanos, como yo; a él oiréis.
38 Este es aquel que estuvo en la iglesia en el desierto con el ángel que le hablaba en el monte Sinaí, y con nuestros padres; y recibió los oráculos de vida para darnos;
39 al cual nuestros padres no quisieron obedecer; antes le desecharon, y se apartaron de corazón a Egipto,
40 diciendo a Aarón: Haznos dioses que vayan delante de nosotros; porque a este Moisés, que nos sacó de tierra de Egipto, no sabemos qué le ha acontecido.
41 Y entonces hicieron el becerro, y ofrecieron sacrificio al ídolo, y en las obras de sus manos se regocijaron.
42 ¶ Y Dios se apartó, y los entregó a que sirvieran al ejército del cielo; como está escrito en el libro de los profetas: ¿Me ofrecisteis víctimas y sacrificios en el desierto por cuarenta años, Casa de Israel?
43 Antes, trajisteis el tabernáculo de Moloc, y la estrella de vuestro dios Renfán; figuras que os hicisteis para adorarlas. Os transportaré pues, más allá de Babilonia.
44 Tuvieron nuestros padres el tabernáculo del testimonio en el desierto, como les ordenó Dios, hablando a Moisés que lo hiciera según la forma que había visto.
45 El cual recibido, lo introdujeron también nuestros padres con Jesús {Josué en Heb.} en la posesión de los gentiles, que Dios echó de la presencia de nuestros padres, hasta los días de David;
46 el cual halló gracia delante de Dios, y pidió proveer tabernáculo para el Dios de Jacob.
47 Mas Salomón le edificó casa.
48 Si bien el Altísimo no habita en templos hechos de mano, como el profeta dice:
49 El cielo es mi trono, y la tierra es el estrado de mis pies. ¿Qué casa me edificaréis?, Dice el Señor; ¿o cuál es el lugar de mi reposo?
50 ¿No hizo mi mano todas estas cosas?
51 ¶ Duros de cerviz, e incircuncisos de corazón y de oídos, vosotros resistís siempre al Espíritu Santo; como vuestros padres, así también vosotros.
52 ¿A cuál de los profetas no persiguieron vuestros padres? Y mataron a los que antes anunciaron la venida del Justo, del cual vosotros ahora habéis sido entregadores y matadores;
53 que recibisteis la ley por disposición de ángeles, y no la guardasteis.
54 ¶ Y oyendo estas cosas, regañaban de sus corazones, y crujían los dientes contra él.
55 Más él, estando lleno del Espíritu Santo, puestos los ojos en el cielo, vio la gloria de Dios, y a Jesús que estaba a la diestra de Dios,
56 y dijo: He aquí, veo los cielos abiertos, y al Hijo del Hombre que está a la diestra de Dios.
57 Entonces ellos dando grandes voces, se taparon sus oídos, y arremetieron unánimes contra él;
58 y echándolo fuera de la ciudad, le apedrearon; y los testigos pusieron sus vestidos a los pies de un joven que se llamaba Saulo.
59 Y apedrearon a Esteban, invocando él y diciendo: Señor Jesús, recibe mi espíritu.
60 Y puesto de rodillas, clamó a gran voz: Señor, no les imputes este pecado. Y habiendo dicho esto, durmió en el Señor.
Acts 7
Complete Jewish Bible
7 The cohen hagadol asked, “Are these accusations true?” 2 and Stephen said:
“Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran 3 and said to him, ‘Leave your land and your family, and go into the land that I will show you.’[a] 4 So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now. 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot;[b] yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him,[c] even though at the time he was childless. 6 What God said to him was, ‘Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years. 7 But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’[d] 8 And he gave him b’rit-milah. So he became the father of Yitz’chak and did his b’rit-milah on the eighth day, and Yitz’chak became the father of Ya‘akov, and Ya‘akov became the father of the Twelve Patriarchs.
9 “Now the Patriarchs grew jealous of Yosef and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But Adonai was with him;[e] 10 he rescued him from all his troubles and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him chief administrator over Egypt and over all his household.[f] 11 Now there came a famine that caused much suffering throughout Egypt and Kena‘an[g] 12 But when Ya‘akov heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time. 13 The second time, Yosef revealed his identity to his brothers,[h] and Yosef’s family became known to Pharaoh. 14 Yosef then sent for his father Ya‘akov and all his relatives, seventy-five people. 15 And Ya‘akov went down to Egypt; there he died, as did our other ancestors. 16 Their bodies were removed to Sh’khem and buried in the tomb Avraham had bought from the family of Hamor in Sh’khem for a certain sum of money.
17 “As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise God had made to Avraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased greatly, 18 until there arose another king over Egypt who had no knowledge of Yosef.[i] 19 With cruel cunning this man forced our fathers to put their newborn babies outside their homes, so that they would not survive.
20 “It was then that Moshe was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. For three months he was reared in his father’s house; 21 and when he was put out of his home, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. 22 So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.
23 “But when he was forty years old, the thought came to him to visit his brothers, the people of Isra’el. 24 On seeing one of them being mistreated, he went to his defense and took revenge by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn’t understand. 26 When he appeared the next day, as they were fighting, and tried to make peace between them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers! Why do you want to hurt each other?’ 27 the one who was mistreating his fellow pushed Moshe away and said, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us? 28 Do you want to kill me, the way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’[j] 29 On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.
30 “After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush. 31 When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of Adonai, 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.’ But Moshe trembled with fear and didn’t dare to look. 33 Adonai said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34 I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.’[k]
35 “This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush. 36 This man led them out, performing miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. 37 This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra’el, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’[l] 38 This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by the angel that had spoken to him at Mount Sinai and by our fathers, the man who was given living words to pass on to us.
39 “But our fathers did not want to obey him. On the contrary, they rejected him and in their hearts turned to Egypt, 40 saying to Aharon, ‘Make us some gods to lead us; because this Moshe, who led us out of Egypt — we don’t know what has become of him.’[m] 41 That was when they made an idol in the shape of a calf and offered a sacrifice to it and held a celebration in honor of what they had made with their own hands. 42 So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars[n] — as has been written in the book of the prophets,
‘People of Isra’el, it was not to me
that you offered slaughtered animals
and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!
43 No, you carried the tent of Molekh
and the star of your god Reifan,
the idols you made so that you could worship them.
Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Bavel.’[o]
44 “Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness. It had been made just as God, who spoke to Moshe, had ordered it made, according to the pattern Moshe had seen. 45 Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y’hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them.
“So it was until the days of David. 46 He enjoyed God’s favor and asked if he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Ya‘akov 47 and Shlomo did build him a house. 48 But Ha‘Elyon does not live in places made by hand! As the prophet says,
49 ‘Heaven is my throne,’ says Adonai,
‘and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house could you build for me?
What kind of place could you devise for my rest?
50 Didn’t I myself make all these things?’[p]
51 “Stiffnecked people,[q] with uncircumcised hearts and ears![r] You continually oppose the Ruach HaKodesh![s] You do the same things your fathers did! 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who told in advance about the coming of the Tzaddik, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers! — 53 you! — who receive the Torah as having been delivered by angels — but do not keep it!”
54 On hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and ground their teeth at him. 55 But he, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, looked up to heaven and saw God’s Sh’khinah, with Yeshua standing at the right hand of God. 56 “Look!” he exclaimed, “I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”[t]
57 At this, they began yelling at the top of their voices, so that they wouldn’t have to hear him; and with one accord, they rushed at him, 58 threw him outside the city and began stoning him. And the witnesses laid down their coats at the feet of a young man named Sha’ul.
59 As they were stoning him, Stephen called out to God, “Lord Yeshua! Receive my spirit!” 60 Then he kneeled down and shouted out, “Lord! Don’t hold this sin against them!” With that, he died;
Footnotes
- Acts 7:3 Genesis 12:1
- Acts 7:5 Deuteronomy 2:5
- Acts 7:5 Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 15:4, 7, 18–21; 17:8; 24:7; 48:4
- Acts 7:7 Genesis 15:13–14, 16
- Acts 7:9 Genesis 37:11, 28; 39:1–3, 21, 23
- Acts 7:10 Genesis 41:37–44
- Acts 7:11 Genesis 41:54; 42:5
- Acts 7:13 Genesis 45:1
- Acts 7:18 Exodus 1:7–8
- Acts 7:28 Exodus 2:14
- Acts 7:34 Exodus 3:1–2
- Acts 7:37 Deuteronomy 18:15
- Acts 7:40 Exodus 32:1, 23
- Acts 7:42 Jeremiah 19:13
- Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25–27
- Acts 7:50 Isaiah 66:1–2
- Acts 7:51 Exodus 32:9; 33:3, 5
- Acts 7:51 Leviticus 26:41; Jeremiah 6:10; 9:25(26)
- Acts 7:51 Isaiah 63:10
- Acts 7:56 Psalm 110:1
Acts 7
King James Version
7 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.
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.
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 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.
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?
28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
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.
33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
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.
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