| 1 فقال رئيس الكهنة أترى هذه الامور هكذا هي. | 1 And the high priest said, "Is this so?" |
| 2 فقال ايها الرجال الاخوة والآباء اسمعوا. ظهر اله المجد لابينا ابراهيم وهو في ما بين النهرين قبلما سكن في حاران | 2 And Stephen said: "Brethren and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, |
| 3 وقال له اخرج من ارضك ومن عشيرتك وهلم الى الارض التي اريك. | 3 and said to him, 'Depart from your land and from your kindred and go into the land which I will show you.' |
| 4 فخرج حينئذ من ارض الكلدانيين وسكن في حاران. ومن هناك نقله بعد ما مات ابوه الى هذه الارض التي انتم الآن ساكنون فيها. | 4 Then he departed from the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living; |
| 5 ولم يعطه فيها ميراثا ولا وطأة قدم ولكن وعد ان يعطيها ملكا له ولنسله من بعده ولم يكن له بعد ولد. | 5 yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he had no child. |
| 6 وتكلم الله هكذا. ان يكون نسله متغربا في ارض غريبة فيستعبدوه ويسيئوا اليه اربع مئة سنة. | 6 And God spoke to this effect, that his posterity would be aliens in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and ill-treat them four hundred years. |
| 7 والامة التي يستعبدون لها سادينها انا يقول الله. وبعد ذلك يخرجون ويعبدونني في هذا المكان. | 7 'But I will judge the nation which they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.' |
| 8 واعطاه عهد الختان وهكذا ولد اسحق وختنه في اليوم الثامن. واسحق ولد يعقوب ويعقوب ولد رؤساء الآباء الاثني عشر. | 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. |
| 9 ورؤساء الآباء حسدوا يوسف وباعوه الى مصر وكان الله معه | 9 "And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him, |
| 10 وانقذه من جميع ضيقاته واعطاه نعمة وحكمة امام فرعون ملك مصر فاقامه مدبرا على مصر وعلى كل بيته | 10 and rescued him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over Egypt and over all his household. |
| 11 ثم أتى جوع على كل ارض مصر وكنعان وضيق عظيم فكان آباؤنا لا يجدون قوتا. | 11 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. |
| 12 ولما سمع يعقوب ان في مصر قمحا ارسل آباءنا اول مرة. | 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time. |
| 13 وفي المرة الثانية استعرف يوسف الى اخوته واستعلنت عشيرة يوسف لفرعون. | 13 And at the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. |
| 14 فارسل يوسف واستدعى اباه يعقوب وجميع عشيرته خمسة وسبعين نفسا. | 14 And Joseph sent and called to him Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five souls; |
| 15 فنزل يعقوب الى مصر ومات هو وآباؤنا | 15 and Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, himself and our fathers, |
| 16 ونقلوا الى شكيم ووضعوا في القبر الذي اشتراه ابراهيم بثمن فضة من بني حمور ابي شكيم. | 16 and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. |
| 17 وكما كان يقرب وقت الموعد الذي اقسم الله عليه لابراهيم كان ينمو الشعب ويكثر في مصر | 17 "But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt |
| 18 الى ان قام ملك آخر لم يكن يعرف يوسف. | 18 till there arose over Egypt another king who had not known Joseph. |
| 19 فاحتال هذا على جنسنا واساء الى آبائنا حتى جعلوا اطفالهم منبوذين لكي لا يعيشوا | 19 He dealt craftily with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, that they might not be kept alive. |
| 20 وفي ذلك الوقت ولد موسى وكان جميلا جدا. فربي هذا ثلاثة اشهر في بيت ابيه. | 20 At this time Moses was born, and was beautiful before God. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house; |
| 21 ولما نبذ اتخذته ابنة فرعون وربته لنفسها ابنا. | 21 and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. |
| 22 فتهذب موسى بكل حكمة المصريين وكان مقتدرا في الاقوال والاعمال. | 22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. |
| 23 ولما كملت له مدة اربعين سنة خطر على باله ان يفتقد اخوته بني اسرائيل. | 23 "When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. |
| 24 واذ رأى واحدا مظلوما حامى عنه وانصف المغلوب اذ قتل المصري. | 24 And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking the Egyptian. |
| 25 فظن ان اخوته يفهمون ان الله على يده يعطيهم نجاة. واما هم فلم يفهموا. | 25 He supposed that his brethren understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand. |
| 26 وفي اليوم الثاني ظهر لهم وهم يتخاصمون فساقهم الى السلامة قائلا ايها الرجال انتم اخوة. لماذا تظلمون بعضكم بعضا. | 26 And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and would have reconciled them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren, why do you wrong each other?' |
| 27 فالذي كان يظلم قريبه دفعه قائلا من اقامك رئيسا وقاضيا علينا. | 27 But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? |
| 28 أتريد ان تقتلني كما قتلت امس المصري. | 28 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?' |
| 29 فهرب موسى بسبب هذه الكلمة وصار غريبا في ارض مديان حيث ولد ابنين | 29 At this retort Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. |
| 30 ولما كملت اربعون سنة ظهر له ملاك الرب في برية جبل سينا في لهيب نار عليقة. | 30 "Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. |
| 31 فلما رأى موسى ذلك تعجب من المنظر. وفيما هو يتقدم ليتطلع صار اليه صوت الرب | 31 When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord came, |
| 32 انا اله آبائك اله ابراهيم واله اسحق واله يعقوب. فارتعد موسى ولم يجسر ان يتطلع. | 32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look. |
| 33 فقال له الرب اخلع نعل رجليك لان الموضع الذي انت واقف عليه ارض مقدسة. | 33 And the Lord said to him, 'Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. |
| 34 اني لقد رأيت مشقة شعبي الذين في مصر وسمعت انينهم ونزلت لأنقذهم. فهلم الآن ارسلك الى مصر | 34 I have surely seen the ill-treatment of my people that are in Egypt and heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.' |
| 35 هذا موسى الذي انكروه قائلين من اقامك رئيسا وقاضيا هذا ارسله الله رئيسا وفاديا بيد الملاك الذي ظهر له في العليقة. | 35 "This Moses whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush. |
| 36 هذا اخرجهم صانعا عجائب وآيات في ارض مصر وفي البحر الاحمر وفي البرية اربعين سنة | 36 He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. |
| 37 هذا هو موسى الذي قال لبني اسرائيل نبيا مثلي سيقيم لكم الرب الهكم من اخوتكم. له تسمعون. | 37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up.' |
| 38 هذا هو الذي كان في الكنيسة في البرية مع الملاك الذي كان يكلمه في جبل سينا ومع آبائنا. الذي قبل اقوالا حية ليعطينا اياها. | 38 This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to give to us. |
| 39 الذي لم يشأ آباؤنا ان يكونوا طائعين له بل دفعوه ورجعوا بقلوبهم الى مصر | 39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt, |
| 40 قائلين لهرون اعمل لنا آلهة تتقدم امامنا. لان هذا موسى الذي اخرجنا من ارض مصر لا نعلم ماذا اصابه. | 40 saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' |
| 41 فعملوا عجلا في تلك الايام واصعدوا ذبيحة للصنم وفرحوا باعمال ايديهم. | 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their hands. |
| 42 فرجع الله واسلمهم ليعبدوا جند السماء كما هو مكتوب في كتاب الانبياء. هل قربتم لي ذبائح وقرابين اربعين سنة في البرية يا بيت اسرائيل. | 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 slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? |
| 43 بل حملتم خيمة مولوك ونجم الهكم رمفان التماثيل التي صنعتموها لتسجدوا لها. فانقلكم الى ما وراء بابل | 43 And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.' |
| 44 واما خيمة الشهادة فكانت مع آبائنا في البرية كما امر الذي كلم موسى ان يعملها على المثال الذي كان قد رآه. | 44 "Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. |
| 45 التي ادخلها ايضا آباؤنا اذ تخلفوا عليها مع يشوع في ملك الامم الذين طردهم الله من وجه آبائنا الى ايام داود | 45 Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations which God thrust out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David, |
| 46 الذي وجد نعمة امام الله والتمس ان يجد مسكنا لاله يعقوب | 46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked leave to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. |
| 47 ولكن سليمان بنى له بيتا. | 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him. |
| 48 لكن العلي لا يسكن في هياكل مصنوعات الايادي. كما يقول النبي | 48 Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as the prophet says, |
| 49 السماء كرسي لي والارض موطئ لقدميّ. اي بيت تبنون لي يقول الرب واي هو مكان راحتي. | 49 'Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool. What house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? |
| 50 أليست يدي صنعت هذه الاشياء كلها | 50 Did not my hand make all these things?' |
| 51 يا قساة الرقاب وغير المختونين بالقلوب والآذان انتم دائما تقاومون الروح القدس. كما كان آباؤكم كذلك انتم. | 51 "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. |
| 52 اي الانبياء لم يضطهده آباؤكم وقد قتلوا الذين سبقوا فانبأوا بمجيء البار الذي انتم الآن صرتم مسلميه وقاتليه. | 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, |
| 53 الذين اخذتم الناموس بترتيب ملائكة ولم تحفظوه | 53 you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it." |
| 54 فلما سمعوا هذا حنقوا بقلوبهم وصروا باسنانهم عليه. | 54 Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth against him. |
| 55 واما هو فشخص الى السماء وهو ممتلئ من الروح القدس فرأى مجد الله ويسوع قائما عن يمين الله. | 55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; |
| 56 فقال ها انا انظر السموات مفتوحة وابن الانسان قائما عن يمين الله. | 56 and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." |
| 57 فصاحوا بصوت عظيم وسدوا آذانهم وهجموا عليه بنفس واحدة. | 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him. |
| 58 واخرجوه خارج المدينة ورجموه. والشهود خلعوا ثيابهم عند رجلي شاب يقال له شاول. | 58 Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. |
| 59 فكانوا يرجمون استفانوس وهو يدعو ويقول ايها الرب يسوع اقبل روحي. | 59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." |
| 60 ثم جثا على ركبتيه وصرخ بصوت عظيم يا رب لا تقم لهم هذه الخطية. واذ قال هذا رقد | 60 And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep. |
