Acts 7

فَقَالَ رَئِيسُ الْكَهَنَةِ:«أَتُرَى هذِهِ الأُمُورُ هكَذَا هِيَ؟»

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

فَقَالَ:«أَيُّهَا الرِّجَالُ الإِخْوَةُ وَالآبَاءُ، اسْمَعُوا! ظَهَرَ إِلهُ الْمَجْدِ لأَبِينَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَهُوَ فِي مَا بَيْنَ النَّهْرَيْنِ، قَبْلَمَا سَكَنَ فِي حَارَانَ

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,

وَقَالَ لَهُ: اخْرُجْ مِنْ أَرْضِكَ وَمِنْ عَشِيرَتِكَ، وَهَلُمَّ إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أُرِيكَ.

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

فَخَرَجَ حِينَئِذٍ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ وَسَكَنَ فِي حَارَانَ. وَمِنْ هُنَاكَ نَقَلَهُ، بَعْدَ مَا مَاتَ أَبُوهُ، إِلَى هذِهِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَنْتُمُ الآنَ سَاكِنُونَ فِيهَا.

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

وَلَمْ يُعْطِهِ فِيهَا مِيرَاثًا وَلاَ وَطْأَةَ قَدَمٍ، وَلكِنْ وَعَدَ أَنْ يُعْطِيَهَا مُلْكًا لَهُ وَلِنَسْلِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ بَعْدُ وَلَدٌ.

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.

وَتَكَلَّمَ اللهُ هكَذَا: أَنْ يَكُونَ نَسْلُهُ مُتَغَرِّبًا فِي أَرْضٍ غَرِيبَةٍ، فَيَسْتَعْبِدُوهُ وَيُسِيئُوا إِلَيْهِ أَرْبَعَ مِئَةِ سَنَةٍ،

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.

وَالأُمَّةُ الَّتِي يُسْتَعْبَدُونَ لَهَا سَأَدِينُهَا أَنَا، يَقُولُ اللهُ. وَبَعْدَ ذلِكَ يَخْرُجُونَ وَيَعْبُدُونَنِي فِي هذَا الْمَكَانِ.

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.

وَأَعْطَاهُ عَهْدَ الْخِتَانِ، وَهكَذَا وَلَدَ إِسْحَاقَ وَخَتَنَهُ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّامِنِ. وَإِسْحَاقُ وَلَدَ يَعْقُوبَ، وَيَعْقُوبُ وَلَدَ رُؤَسَاءَ الآبَاءِ الاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ.

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.

وَرُؤَسَاءُ الآبَاءِ حَسَدُوا يُوسُفَ وَبَاعُوهُ إِلَى مِصْرَ، وَكَانَ اللهُ مَعَهُ،

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

وَأَنْقَذَهُ مِنْ جَمِيعِ ضِيقَاتِهِ، وَأَعْطَاهُ نِعْمَةً وَحِكْمَةً أَمَامَ فِرْعَوْنَ مَلِكِ مِصْرَ، فَأَقَامَهُ مُدَبِّرًا عَلَى مِصْرَ وَعَلَى كُلِّ بَيْتِهِ.

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.

«ثُمَّ أَتَى جُوعٌ عَلَى كُلِّ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ وَكَنْعَانَ، وَضِيقٌ عَظِيمٌ، فَكَانَ آبَاؤُنَا لاَ يَجِدُونَ قُوتًا.

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

وَلَمَّا سَمِعَ يَعْقُوبُ أَنَّ فِي مِصْرَ قَمْحًا، أَرْسَلَ آبَاءَنَا أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ.

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

وَفِي الْمَرَّةِ الثَّانِيَةِ اسْتَعْرَفَ يُوسُفُ إِلَى إِخْوَتِهِ، وَاسْتَعْلَنَتْ عَشِيرَةُ يُوسُفَ لِفِرْعَوْنَ.

And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

فَأَرْسَلَ يُوسُفُ وَاسْتَدْعَى أَبَاهُ يَعْقُوبَ وَجَمِيعَ عَشِيرَتِهِ، خَمْسَةً وَسَبْعِينَ نَفْسًا.

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

فَنَزَلَ يَعْقُوبُ إِلَى مِصْرَ وَمَاتَ هُوَ وَآبَاؤُنَا،

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

وَنُقِلُوا إِلَى شَكِيمَ وَوُضِعُوا فِي الْقَبْرِ الَّذِي اشْتَرَاهُ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بِثَمَنٍ فِضَّةٍ مِنْ بَنِي حَمُورَ أَبِي شَكِيمَ.

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.

وَكَمَا كَانَ يَقْرُبُ وَقْتُ الْمَوْعِدِ الَّذِي أَقْسَمَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ لإِبْرَاهِيمَ، كَانَ يَنْمُو الشَّعْبُ وَيَكْثُرُ فِي مِصْرَ،

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

إِلَى أَنْ قَامَ مَلِكٌ آخَرُ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْرِفُ يُوسُفَ.

Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

فَاحْتَالَ هذَا عَلَى جِنْسِنَا وَأَسَاءَ إِلَى آبَائِنَا، حَتَّى جَعَلُوا أَطْفَالَهُمْ مَنْبُوذِينَ لِكَيْ لاَ يَعِيشُوا.

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.

«وَفِي ذلِكَ الْوَقْتِ وُلِدَ مُوسَى وَكَانَ جَمِيلاً جِدًّا، فَرُبِّيَ هذَا ثَلاَثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ فِي بَيْتِ أَبِيهِ.

In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

وَلَمَّا نُبِذَ، اتَّخَذَتْهُ ابْنَةُ فِرْعَوْنَ وَرَبَّتْهُ لِنَفْسِهَا ابْنًا.

And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

فَتَهَذَّبَ مُوسَى بِكُلِّ حِكْمَةِ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ، وَكَانَ مُقْتَدِرًا فِي الأَقْوَالِ وَالأَعْمَالِ.

And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

وَلَمَّا كَمِلَتْ لَهُ مُدَّةُ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً، خَطَرَ عَلَى بَالِهِ أَنْ يَفْتَقِدَ إِخْوَتَهُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

وَإِذْ رَأَى وَاحِدًا مَظْلُومًا حَامَى عَنْهُ، وَأَنْصَفَ الْمَغْلُوبَ، إِذْ قَتَلَ الْمِصْرِيَّ.

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

فَظَنَّ أَنَّ إِخْوَتَهُ يَفْهَمُونَ أَنَّ اللهَ عَلَى يَدِهِ يُعْطِيهِمْ نَجَاةً، وَأَمَّا هُمْ فَلَمْ يَفْهَمُوا.

For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّانِي ظَهَرَ لَهُمْ وَهُمْ يَتَخَاصَمُونَ، فَسَاقَهُمْ إِلَى السَّلاَمَةِ قَائِلاً: أَيُّهَا الرِّجَالُ، أَنْتُمْ إِخْوَةٌ. لِمَاذَا تَظْلِمُونَ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًا؟

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?

فَالَّذِي كَانَ يَظْلِمُ قَرِيبَهُ دَفَعَهُ قَائِلاً: مَنْ أَقَامَكَ رَئِيسًا وَقَاضِيًا عَلَيْنَا؟

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

أَتُرِيدُ أَنْ تَقْتُلَنِي كَمَا قَتَلْتَ أَمْسَ الْمِصْرِيَّ؟

Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

فَهَرَبَ مُوسَى بِسَبَبِ هذِهِ الْكَلِمَةِ، وَصَارَ غَرِيبًا فِي أَرْضِ مَدْيَانَ، حَيْثُ وَلَدَ ابْنَيْنِ.

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

«وَلَمَّا كَمِلَتْ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً، ظَهَرَ لَهُ مَلاَكُ الرَّبِّ فِي بَرِّيَّةِ جَبَلِ سِينَاءَ فِي لَهِيبِ نَارِ عُلَّيْقَةٍ.

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.

فَلَمَّا رَأَى مُوسَى ذلِكَ تَعَجَّبَ مِنَ الْمَنْظَرِ. وَفِيمَا هُوَ يَتَقَدَّمُ لِيَتَطَلَّعَ، صَارَ إِلَيْهِ صَوْتُ الرَّبِّ:

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,

أَنَا إِلهُ آبَائِكَ، إِلهُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِلهُ إِسْحَاقَ وَإِلهُ يَعْقُوبَ. فَارْتَعَدَ مُوسَى وَلَمْ يَجْسُرْ أَنْ يَتَطَلَّعَ.

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.

فَقَالَ لَهُ الرَّبُّ: اخْلَعْ نَعْلَ رِجْلَيْكَ، لأَنَّ الْمَوْضِعَ الَّذِي أَنْتَ وَاقِفٌ عَلَيْهِ أَرْضٌ مُقَدَّسَةٌ.

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

إِنِّي لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ مَشَقَّةَ شَعْبِي الَّذِينَ فِي مِصْرَ، وَسَمِعْتُ أَنِينَهُمْ وَنَزَلْتُ لأُنْقِذَهُمْ. فَهَلُمَّ الآنَ أُرْسِلُكَ إِلَى مِصْرَ.

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.

«هذَا مُوسَى الَّذِي أَنْكَرُوهُ قَائِلِينَ: مَنْ أَقَامَكَ رَئِيسًا وَقَاضِيًا؟ هذَا أَرْسَلَهُ اللهُ رَئِيسًا وَفَادِيًا بِيَدِ الْمَلاَكِ الَّذِي ظَهَرَ لَهُ فِي الْعُلَّيْقَةِ.

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.

هذَا أَخْرَجَهُمْ صَانِعًا عَجَائِبَ وَآيَاتٍ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، وَفِي الْبَحْرِ الأَحْمَرِ، وَفِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً.

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.

«هذَا هُوَ مُوسَى الَّذِي قَالَ لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ: نَبِيًّا مِثْلِي سَيُقِيمُ لَكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلهُكُمْ مِنْ إِخْوَتِكُمْ. لَهُ تَسْمَعُونَ.

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.

هذَا هُوَ الَّذِي كَانَ فِي الْكَنِيسَةِ فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ، مَعَ الْمَلاَكِ الَّذِي كَانَ يُكَلِّمُهُ فِي جَبَلِ سِينَاءَ، وَمَعَ آبَائِنَا. الَّذِي قَبِلَ أَقْوَالاً حَيَّةً لِيُعْطِيَنَا إِيَّاهَا.

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:

الَّذِي لَمْ يَشَأْ آبَاؤُنَا أَنْ يَكُونُوا طَائِعِينَ لَهُ، بَلْ دَفَعُوهُ وَرَجَعُوا بِقُلُوبِهِمْ إِلَى مِصْرَ

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

قَائِلِينَ لِهَارُونَ: اعْمَلْ لَنَا آلِهَةً تَتَقَدَّمُ أَمَامَنَا، لأَنَّ هذَا مُوسَى الَّذِي أَخْرَجَنَا مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ لاَ نَعْلَمُ مَاذَا أَصَابَهُ!

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.

فَعَمِلُوا عِجْلاً فِي تِلْكَ الأَيَّامِ وَأَصْعَدُوا ذَبِيحَةً لِلصَّنَمِ، وَفَرِحُوا بِأَعْمَالِ أَيْدِيهِمْ.

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

فَرَجَعَ اللهُ وَأَسْلَمَهُمْ لِيَعْبُدُوا جُنْدَ السَّمَاءِ، كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ فِي كِتَابِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ: هَلْ قَرَّبْتُمْ لِي ذَبَائِحَ وَقَرَابِينَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ يَا بَيْتَ إِسْرَائِيلَ؟

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?

بَلْ حَمَلْتُمْ خَيْمَةَ مُولُوكَ، وَنَجْمَ إِلهِكُمْ رَمْفَانَ، التَّمَاثِيلَ الَّتِي صَنَعْتُمُوهَا لِتَسْجُدُوا لَهَا. فَأَنْقُلُكُمْ إِلَى مَا وَرَاءَ بَابِلَ.

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.

«وَأَمَّا خَيْمَةُ الشَّهَادَةِ فَكَانَتْ مَعَ آبَائِنَا فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ، كَمَا أَمَرَ الَّذِي كَلَّمَ مُوسَى أَنْ يَعْمَلَهَا عَلَى الْمِثَالِ الَّذِي كَانَ قَدْ رَآهُ،

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.

الَّتِي أَدْخَلَهَا أَيْضًا آبَاؤُنَا إِذْ تَخَلَّفُوا عَلَيْهَا مَعَ يَشُوعَ فِي مُلْكِ الأُمَمِ الَّذِينَ طَرَدَهُمُ اللهُ مِنْ وَجْهِ آبَائِنَا، إِلَى أَيَّامِ دَاوُدَ

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;

الَّذِي وَجَدَ نِعْمَةً أَمَامَ اللهِ، وَالْتَمَسَ أَنْ يَجِدَ مَسْكَنًا لإِلهِ يَعْقُوبَ.

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

وَلكِنَّ سُلَيْمَانَ بَنَى لَهُ بَيْتًا.

But Solomon built him an house.

لكِنَّ الْعَلِيَّ لاَ يَسْكُنُ فِي هَيَاكِلَ مَصْنُوعَاتِ الأَيَادِي، كَمَا يَقُولُ النَّبِيُّ:

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

السَّمَاءُ كُرْسِيٌّ لِي، وَالأَرْضُ مَوْطِئٌ لِقَدَمَيَّ. أَيَّ بَيْتٍ تَبْنُونَ لِي؟ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، وَأَيٌّ هُوَ مَكَانُ رَاحَتِي؟

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?

أَلَيْسَتْ يَدِي صَنَعَتْ هذِهِ الأَشْيَاءَ كُلَّهَا؟

Hath not my hand made all these things?

«يَا قُسَاةَ الرِّقَابِ، وَغَيْرَ الْمَخْتُونِينَ بِالْقُلُوبِ وَالآذَانِ! أَنْتُمْ دَائِمًا تُقَاوِمُونَ الرُّوحَ الْقُدُسَ. كَمَا كَانَ آبَاؤُكُمْ كَذلِكَ أَنْتُمْ!

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

أَيُّ الأَنْبِيَاءِ لَمْ يَضْطَهِدْهُ آبَاؤُكُمْ؟ وَقَدْ قَتَلُوا الَّذِينَ سَبَقُوا فَأَنْبَأُوا بِمَجِيءِ الْبَارِّ، الَّذِي أَنْتُمُ الآنَ صِرْتُمْ مُسَلِّمِيهِ وَقَاتِلِيهِ،

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:

الَّذِينَ أَخَذْتُمُ النَّامُوسَ بِتَرْتِيبِ مَلاَئِكَةٍ وَلَمْ تَحْفَظُوهُ».

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

فَلَمَّا سَمِعُوا هذَا حَنِقُوا بِقُلُوبِهِمْ وَصَرُّوا بِأَسْنَانِهِمْ عَلَيْهِ.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

وَأَمَّا هُوَ فَشَخَصَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ وَهُوَ مُمْتَلِئٌ مِنَ الرُّوحِ الْقُدُسِ، فَرَأَى مَجْدَ اللهِ، وَيَسُوعَ قَائِمًا عَنْ يَمِينِ اللهِ.

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,

فَقَالَ:«هَا أَنَا أَنْظُرُ السَّمَاوَاتِ مَفْتُوحَةً، وَابْنَ الإِنْسَانِ قَائِمًا عَنْ يَمِينِ اللهِ».

And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

فَصَاحُوا بِصَوْتٍ عَظِيمٍ وَسَدُّوا آذَانَهُمْ، وَهَجَمُوا عَلَيْهِ بِنَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ،

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

وَأَخْرَجُوهُ خَارِجَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَرَجَمُوهُ. وَالشُّهُودُ خَلَعُوا ثِيَابَهُمْ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيْ شَابٍّ يُقَالُ لَهُ شَاوُلُ.

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.

فَكَانُوا يَرْجُمُونَ اسْتِفَانُوسَ وَهُوَ يَدْعُو وَيَقُولُ:«أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ يَسُوعُ اقْبَلْ رُوحِي».

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

ثُمَّ جَثَا عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ وَصَرَخَ بِصَوْتٍ عَظِيمٍ:«يَارَبُّ، لاَ تُقِمْ لَهُمْ هذِهِ الْخَطِيَّةَ». وَإِذْ قَالَ هذَا رَقَدَ.

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.