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   47 (1Ki 8:20; 2Sa 7:13) But Solomon built Him a house.   
   48 (1Ki 8:27) "However, the Most High does not dwell   
   in houses made with hands. As the prophet says:   
   49 (Mt 5:34-35; Ps 11:4) 'Heaven is My throne,   
   and the earth is My footstool.   
   What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,   
   or what is the place of My rest?   
   50 Has not My hand made all these things?'   
   51 (Ex 32:9; Lev 26:41) "You stiff-necked people,   
   uncircumcised in heart and ears!   
   You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.   
   52 (Mt 5:12; 2Ch 36:16) Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted?   
   They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One,   
   of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,   
   53 (Gal 3:19; Heb 2:2; Dt 33:2) who have received the law by the disposition   
   of angels, but have not kept it."   
      
   [1] 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 Abrham, 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   
      
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