And the high priest asked him, Are these things so?

And he said, Men, brothers and our fathers, hear. Elohim of glory appeared to our father Avraham when he was in Beth-Nahrin, before he came to dwell in Charan,

and he said to him, Go out from your land and from among the sons of your family, and come to the land that I will show you.

And then Avraham went out from the land of the Chaldeans and came and dwelt in Charan. And from there, when his father died, Elohim moved him to this land in which you dwell today.

And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and he had promised to give it to him as an inheritance to him and to his seed, when he had no son.

And Elohim spoke with him, saying to him that your seed will be a sojourner in a foreign land, and they will enslave it and treat it badly four hundred years.

And the nation to whom they will serve bondage, I will judge, says Elohim. And after these things they will go out and will serve me in this place.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And then he begot Yitz'chak and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Yitz'chak begot Ya'akov, and Ya'akov begot our twelve fathers.

And those our fathers envied Yosip and sold him into Mitsrin, and Elohim was with him,

and he delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Mitsrin, and he set him as head over Mitsrin and over all his house.

And there was a famine and great distress in all Mitsrin and in the land of Kenaan, and our fathers had nothing to be satisfied.

And when Ya'akov heard that there was grain in Mitsrin, he sent our fathers first.

And when they went the second time, Yosip made himself known to his brothers, and the kindred of Yosip was made known to Pharaoh.

And Yosip sent and brought his father Ya'akov and all his kindred, and they were in number seventy and five souls.

And Ya'akov went down to Egypt, and he died there, he and our fathers.

And he was transferred to Shekim and was laid in the tomb that Avraham bought with silver from the sons of Hamor.

And when the time arrived for that which Elohim had promised with an oath to Avraham, the people multiplied and grew strong in Egypt,

until another king arose over Egypt, who did not know Yosip.

And he dealt craftily with our kindred and treated our fathers badly, and ordered that their infants be cast away so they would not live.

At that time Moshe was born, and he was lovely to Elohim, and he was nursed three months in his father's house.

And when he was cast out from his mother, the daughter of Pharaoh found him and raised him for herself as a son.

And Moshe was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was ready in his words and also in his deeds.

And when he was a son of forty years, it came up on his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Yisrael.

And he saw one of the sons of his race who was being treated with violence, and he avenged him and did him justice, and killed the Egyptian who was wronging him.

And he supposed that his brothers the sons of Yisrael would understand that Elohim by his hand was giving them deliverance; and they did not understand.

And on another day he appeared to them as they were quarreling one with another, and he was urging them to be reconciled, saying, Men, you are brothers; why are you wronging one another?

But the one who was wronging his companion pushed him away from him and said to him, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

Do you seek to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

And Moshe fled at this word and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, and two sons were born to him.

And when forty years were completed for him there, the messenger of Master YHWH appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai in a fire that burned in a bush.

And when Moshe saw it, he marveled at the sight; and when he drew near to see, Master YHWH said to him in a voice:

I am I am Elohim of your fathers, Elohim of Avraham and of Yitz'chak and of Ya'akov. And Moshe was trembling and did not dare to look at the sight.

And Master YHWH said to him: Loose your sandals from your feet, for the earth on which you stand is holy.

Seeing I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Mitsrin, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to give them life. And now come, I will send you to Mitsrin.

This Moshe whom they rejected, saying, Who set you over us as head and judge? this one Elohim sent to them as head and Life-Giver by the hand of the messenger who appeared to him in the bush.

This is he who brought them out, doing signs and wonders and mighty works in the land of Mitsrin and in the Sea of Suf and in the wilderness forty years.

This is Moshe who said to the children of Yisrael: A prophet will Master YHWH Elohim raise up for you from your brothers, like me; to him you will listen.

This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the messenger who spoke with him and with our fathers on the mountain of Sinai, and he is the one who received living words to give them to us.

And our fathers were not willing to obey him, but forsook him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

when they said to Aharon: Make us gods that will go before us; because this Moshe who brought us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

And they made a calf for themselves in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and were delighting in the work of their hands.

And Elohim turned and gave them over to serve the hosts of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: Did you for forty years in the wilderness bring me slain offerings or sacrifices, children of Yisrael?

But you carried the tabernacle of Malkum and the star of the Elohim of Rephan, the images that you made so that you would bow down to them. I will remove you far beyond Babel.

The tabernacle of the testimony of our fathers was in the wilderness, as he who spoke with Moshe commanded to make it in the likeness that he showed him.

And this same tabernacle our fathers also brought in with Y'shua into the land that Elohim gave them as an inheritance from those peoples that he drove out from before them, and it was carried until the days of Dawid.

He found favor before Elohim and asked that he might find a tabernacle for the Elohim of Ya'akov.

But Shleemon built a house for him.

Yet the Most High does not dwell in works of human hands, as the prophet says:

Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool under my feet. What is the house that you will build for me? says Master YHWH. Or what is the place of my rest?

Has not my hand made all these things?

O stiff of neck, and uncircumcised in their heart and in their hearing, you always stand against the Ruach haKodesh; as your fathers, so also you.

For which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute and kill, even those who foretold the coming of the Just One, whom you delivered up and killed?

And you received the law by the commandment of messengers, and you have not kept it.

And when they heard these things, they were filled with rage in their souls, and they were gnashing their teeth against him.

And he, when he was full of faith and of the Ruach haKodesh, looked into heaven and saw the glory of Elohim, and Y'shua standing at the right hand of Elohim.

And he said, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of Elohim.

And they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, and they all rushed upon him.

And they seized him and took him outside the city and were stoning him. And those who testified against him laid their clothes at the feet of a certain young man who was called Shaul.

And they were stoning Estepanos as he prayed and said, Our Master Y'shua, receive my spirit.

And when he had knelt down he cried out with a loud voice and said, Our Master, do not establish this sin against them. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.