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"This Moses whom they refused, saying, `Who made thee a ruler and a judge?' was the same whom God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer, by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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He brought them out after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
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This is that Moses who said unto the children of Israel, `A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from your brethren, like unto me; Him shall ye hear.'
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This is he, who in the church in the wilderness was with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers--the one who received the living oracles to give unto us,
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to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
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saying unto Aaron, `Make us gods to go before us; for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has become of him.'
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And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
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"Then God turned, and gave them up to the worship of 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 for the space of forty years in the wilderness?
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Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan, images which ye made to worship them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'
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"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,
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which also our fathers, who came later, brought with Joshua into the territory of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David.
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David found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
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But Solomon built Him a house.
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"However, the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet:
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`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?
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Hath not My hand made all these things?'
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"Ye stiffnecked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do ye!
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Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have slain those who foretold the coming of the Just One. Of Him ye have now been the betrayers and murderers,
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ye who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it."
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When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.
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But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
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and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
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Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
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and cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man whose name was Saul.
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And they stoned Stephen as he called upon God and said, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
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And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, charge not this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.