Acts 7
1 The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
tataḥ paraṁ mahāyājakaḥ pṛṣṭavān, eṣā kathāṁ kiṁ satyā?
2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
tataḥ sa pratyavadat, he pitaro he bhrātaraḥ sarvve lākā manāṁsi nidhaddhvaṁ|asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣa ibrāhīm hāraṇnagare vāsakaraṇāt pūrvvaṁ yadā arām-naharayimadeśe āsīt tadā tejomaya īśvaro darśanaṁ datvā
3 and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'
tamavadat tvaṁ svadeśajñātimitrāṇi parityajya yaṁ deśamahaṁ darśayiṣyāmi taṁ deśaṁ vraja|
4 Then he came out of the land of the Kasdim, and lived in Haran. From there, after his father died, he moved him into this land, where you are now living.
ataḥ sa kasdīyadeśaṁ vihāya hāraṇnagare nyavasat, tadanantaraṁ tasya pitari mṛte yatra deśe yūyaṁ nivasatha sa enaṁ deśamāgacchat|
5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when he still had no child.
kintvīśvarastasmai kamapyadhikāram arthād ekapadaparimitāṁ bhūmimapi nādadāt; tadā tasya kopi santāno nāsīt tathāpi santānaiḥ sārddham etasya deśasyādhikārī tvaṁ bhaviṣyasīti tampratyaṅgīkṛtavān|
6 But God spoke in this way, 'His descendants will live as strangers in a foreign land, and that they will be slaves and mistreated, for four hundred years.
īśvara ittham aparamapi kathitavān tava santānāḥ paradeśe nivatsyanti tatastaddeśīyalokāścatuḥśatavatsarān yāvat tān dāsatve sthāpayitvā tān prati kuvyavahāraṁ kariṣyanti|
7 But I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'
aparam īśvara enāṁ kathāmapi kathitavān, ye lokāstān dāsatve sthāpayiṣyanti tāllokān ahaṁ daṇḍayiṣyāmi, tataḥ paraṁ te bahirgatāḥ santo mām atra sthāne seviṣyante|
8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
paścāt sa tasmai tvakchedasya niyamaṁ dattavān, ata ishākanāmni ibrāhīma ekaputre jāte, aṣṭamadine tasya tvakchedam akarot| tasya ishākaḥ putro yākūb, tatastasya yākūbo'smākaṁ dvādaśa pūrvvapuruṣā ajāyanta|
9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt; and God was with him,
te pūrvvapuruṣā īrṣyayā paripūrṇā misaradeśaṁ preṣayituṁ yūṣaphaṁ vyakrīṇan|
10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
kintvīśvarastasya sahāyo bhūtvā sarvvasyā durgate rakṣitvā tasmai buddhiṁ dattvā misaradeśasya rājñaḥ phirauṇaḥ priyapātraṁ kṛtavān tato rājā misaradeśasya svīyasarvvaparivārasya ca śāsanapadaṁ tasmai dattavān|
11 Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no food.
tasmin samaye misara-kinānadeśayo rdurbhikṣahetoratikliṣṭatvāt naḥ pūrvvapuruṣā bhakṣyadravyaṁ nālabhanta|
12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
kintu misaradeśe śasyāni santi, yākūb imāṁ vārttāṁ śrutvā prathamam asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣān misaraṁ preṣitavān|
13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
tato dvitīyavāragamane yūṣaph svabhrātṛbhiḥ paricito'bhavat; yūṣapho bhrātaraḥ phirauṇ rājena paricitā abhavan|
14 Then Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
anantaraṁ yūṣaph bhrātṛgaṇaṁ preṣya nijapitaraṁ yākūbaṁ nijān pañcādhikasaptatisaṁkhyakān jñātijanāṁśca samāhūtavān|
15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
tasmād yākūb misaradeśaṁ gatvā svayam asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣāśca tasmin sthāne'mriyanta|
16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and placed in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor in Shechem.
tataste śikhimaṁ nītā yat śmaśānam ibrāhīm mudrādatvā śikhimaḥ pitu rhamoraḥ putrebhyaḥ krītavān tatśmaśāne sthāpayāñcakrire|
17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
tataḥ param īśvara ibrāhīmaḥ sannidhau śapathaṁ kṛtvā yāṁ pratijñāṁ kṛtavān tasyāḥ pratijñāyāḥ phalanasamaye nikaṭe sati isrāyellokā simaradeśe varddhamānā bahusaṁkhyā abhavan|
18 until 'there arose a different king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.'
śeṣe yūṣaphaṁ yo na paricinoti tādṛśa eko narapatirupasthāya
19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they would not stay alive.
asmākaṁ jñātibhiḥ sārddhaṁ dhūrttatāṁ vidhāya pūrvvapuruṣān prati kuvyavaharaṇapūrvvakaṁ teṣāṁ vaṁśanāśanāya teṣāṁ navajātān śiśūn bahi rnirakṣepayat|
20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.
etasmin samaye mūsā jajñe, sa tu paramasundaro'bhavat tathā pitṛgṛhe māsatrayaparyyantaṁ pālito'bhavat|
21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.
kintu tasmin bahirnikṣipte sati phirauṇarājasya kanyā tam uttolya nītvā dattakaputraṁ kṛtvā pālitavatī|
22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
tasmāt sa mūsā misaradeśīyāyāḥ sarvvavidyāyāḥ pāradṛṣvā san vākye kriyāyāñca śaktimān abhavat|
23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
sa sampūrṇacatvāriṁśadvatsaravayasko bhūtvā isrāyelīyavaṁśanijabhrātṛn sākṣāt kartuṁ matiṁ cakre|
24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
teṣāṁ janamekaṁ hiṁsitaṁ dṛṣṭvā tasya sapakṣaḥ san hiṁsitajanam upakṛtya misarīyajanaṁ jaghāna|
25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they did not understand.
tasya hasteneśvarastān uddhariṣyati tasya bhrātṛgaṇa iti jñāsyati sa ityanumānaṁ cakāra, kintu te na bubudhire|
26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'
tatpare 'hani teṣām ubhayo rjanayo rvākkalaha upasthite sati mūsāḥ samīpaṁ gatvā tayo rmelanaṁ karttuṁ matiṁ kṛtvā kathayāmāsa, he mahāśayau yuvāṁ bhrātarau parasparam anyāyaṁ kutaḥ kuruthaḥ?
27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
tataḥ samīpavāsinaṁ prati yo jano'nyāyaṁ cakāra sa taṁ dūrīkṛtya kathayāmāsa, asmākamupari śāstṛtvavicārayitṛtvapadayoḥ kastvāṁ niyuktavān?
28 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
hyo yathā misarīyaṁ hatavān tathā kiṁ māmapi haniṣyasi?
29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
tadā mūsā etādṛśīṁ kathāṁ śrutvā palāyanaṁ cakre, tato midiyanadeśaṁ gatvā pravāsī san tasthau, tatastatra dvau putrau jajñāte|
30 "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
anantaraṁ catvāriṁśadvatsareṣu gateṣu sīnayaparvvatasya prāntare prajvalitastambasya vahniśikhāyāṁ parameśvaradūtastasmai darśanaṁ dadau|
31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came,
mūsāstasmin darśane vismayaṁ matvā viśeṣaṁ jñātuṁ nikaṭaṁ gacchati,
32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.
etasmin samaye, ahaṁ tava pūrvvapuruṣāṇām īśvaro'rthād ibrāhīma īśvara ishāka īśvaro yākūba īśvaraśca, mūsāmuddiśya parameśvarasyaitādṛśī vihāyasīyā vāṇī babhūva, tataḥ sa kampānvitaḥ san puna rnirīkṣituṁ pragalbho na babhūva|
33 The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
parameśvarastaṁ jagāda, tava pādayoḥ pāduke mocaya yatra tiṣṭhasi sā pavitrabhūmiḥ|
34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
ahaṁ misaradeśasthānāṁ nijalokānāṁ durddaśāṁ nitāntam apaśyaṁ, teṣāṁ kātaryyoktiñca śrutavān tasmāt tān uddharttum avaruhyāgamam; idānīm āgaccha misaradeśaṁ tvāṁ preṣayāmi|
35 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
kastvāṁ śāstṛtvavicārayitṛtvapadayo rniyuktavān, iti vākyamuktvā tai ryo mūsā avajñātastameva īśvaraḥ stambamadhye darśanadātrā tena dūtena śāstāraṁ muktidātārañca kṛtvā preṣayāmāsa|
36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
sa ca misaradeśe sūphnāmni samudre ca paścāt catvāriṁśadvatsarān yāvat mahāprāntare nānāprakārāṇyadbhutāni karmmāṇi lakṣaṇāni ca darśayitvā tān bahiḥ kṛtvā samānināya|
37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.'
prabhuḥ parameśvaro yuṣmākaṁ bhrātṛgaṇasya madhye mādṛśam ekaṁ bhaviṣyadvaktāram utpādayiṣyati tasya kathāyāṁ yūyaṁ mano nidhāsyatha, yo jana isrāyelaḥ santānebhya enāṁ kathāṁ kathayāmāsa sa eṣa mūsāḥ|
38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received words of life to give to us,
mahāprāntarasthamaṇḍalīmadhye'pi sa eva sīnayaparvvatopari tena sārddhaṁ saṁlāpino dūtasya cāsmatpitṛgaṇasya madhyasthaḥ san asmabhyaṁ dātavyani jīvanadāyakāni vākyāni lebhe|
39 to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣāstam amānyaṁ katvā svebhyo dūrīkṛtya misaradeśaṁ parāvṛtya gantuṁ manobhirabhilaṣya hāroṇaṁ jagaduḥ,
40 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
asmākam agre'gre gantum asmadarthaṁ devagaṇaṁ nirmmāhi yato yo mūsā asmān misaradeśād bahiḥ kṛtvānītavān tasya kiṁ jātaṁ tadasmābhi rna jñāyate|
41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
tasmin samaye te govatsākṛtiṁ pratimāṁ nirmmāya tāmuddiśya naivedyamutmṛjya svahastakṛtavastunā ānanditavantaḥ|
42 But God turned, and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
tasmād īśvarasteṣāṁ prati vimukhaḥ san ākāśasthaṁ jyotirgaṇaṁ pūjayituṁ tebhyo'numatiṁ dadau, yādṛśaṁ bhaviṣyadvādināṁ grantheṣu likhitamāste, yathā, isrāyelīyavaṁśā re catvāriṁśatsamān purā| mahati prāntare saṁsthā yūyantu yāni ca| balihomādikarmmāṇi kṛtavantastu tāni kiṁ| māṁ samuddiśya yuṣmābhiḥ prakṛtānīti naiva ca|
43 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship them. Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.'
kintu vo molakākhyasya devasya dūṣyameva ca| yuṣmākaṁ rimphanākhyāyā devatāyāśca tārakā| etayorubhayo rmūrtī yuṣmābhiḥ paripūjite| ato yuṣmāṁstu bābelaḥ pāraṁ neṣyāmi niścitaṁ|
44 "Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
aparañca yannidarśanam apaśyastadanusāreṇa dūṣyaṁ nirmmāhi yasmin īśvaro mūsām etadvākyaṁ babhāṣe tat tasya nirūpitaṁ sākṣyasvarūpaṁ dūṣyam asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣaiḥ saha prāntare tasthau|
45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
paścāt yihośūyena sahitaisteṣāṁ vaṁśajātairasmatpūrvvapuruṣaiḥ sveṣāṁ sammukhād īśvareṇa dūrīkṛtānām anyadeśīyānāṁ deśādhikṛtikāle samānītaṁ tad dūṣyaṁ dāyūdodhikāraṁ yāvat tatra sthāna āsīt|
46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
sa dāyūd parameśvarasyānugrahaṁ prāpya yākūb īśvarārtham ekaṁ dūṣyaṁ nirmmātuṁ vavāñcha;
47 But Solomon built him a house.
kintu sulemān tadarthaṁ mandiram ekaṁ nirmmitavān|
48 However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
tathāpi yaḥ sarvvoparisthaḥ sa kasmiṁścid hastakṛte mandire nivasatīti nahi, bhaviṣyadvādī kathāmetāṁ kathayati, yathā,
49 'Heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'or what is the place of my rest?
pareśo vadati svargo rājasiṁhāsanaṁ mama| madīyaṁ pādapīṭhañca pṛthivī bhavati dhruvaṁ| tarhi yūyaṁ kṛte me kiṁ pranirmmāsyatha mandiraṁ| viśrāmāya madīyaṁ vā sthānaṁ kiṁ vidyate tviha|
50 Did not my hand make all these things?'
sarvvāṇyetāni vastūni kiṁ me hastakṛtāni na||
51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.
he anājñāgrāhakā antaḥkaraṇe śravaṇe cāpavitralokāḥ yūyam anavarataṁ pavitrasyātmanaḥ prātikūlyam ācaratha, yuṣmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣā yādṛśā yūyamapi tādṛśāḥ|
52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
yuṣmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣāḥ kaṁ bhaviṣyadvādinaṁ nātāḍayan? ye tasya dhārmmikasya janasyāgamanakathāṁ kathitavantastān aghnan yūyam adhūnā viśvāsaghātino bhūtvā taṁ dhārmmikaṁ janam ahata|
53 You received the Law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it."
yūyaṁ svargīyadūtagaṇena vyavasthāṁ prāpyāpi tāṁ nācaratha|
54 Now when they heard these things, they were furious, and they ground their teeth at him.
imāṁ kathāṁ śrutvā te manaḥsu biddhāḥ santastaṁ prati dantagharṣaṇam akurvvan|
55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
kintu stiphānaḥ pavitreṇātmanā pūrṇo bhūtvā gagaṇaṁ prati sthiradṛṣṭiṁ kṛtvā īśvarasya dakṣiṇe daṇḍāyamānaṁ yīśuñca vilokya kathitavān;
56 And he said, "Look, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
paśya, meghadvāraṁ muktam īśvarasya dakṣiṇe sthitaṁ mānavasutañca paśyāmi|
57 But they shouted out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.
tadā te proccaiḥ śabdaṁ kṛtvā karṇeṣvaṅgulī rnidhāya ekacittībhūya tam ākraman|
58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
paścāt taṁ nagarād bahiḥ kṛtvā prastarairāghnan sākṣiṇo lākāḥ śaulanāmno yūnaścaraṇasannidhau nijavastrāṇi sthāpitavantaḥ|
59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
anantaraṁ he prabho yīśe madīyamātmānaṁ gṛhāṇa stiphānasyeti prārthanavākyavadanasamaye te taṁ prastarairāghnan|
60 He kneeled down, and shouted out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.
tasmāt sa jānunī pātayitvā proccaiḥ śabdaṁ kṛtvā, he prabhe pāpametad eteṣu mā sthāpaya, ityuktvā mahānidrāṁ prāpnot|
