Acts 7

1 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

1 大祭司问：“这是真的吗？”

2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

2 司提凡说：“各位父老兄弟，请听我说！我们的祖先亚伯拉罕迁到哈兰之前，住在美索不达米亚，荣耀的上帝向他显现，说，

3 and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’

3 ‘你要离开家乡和亲族，到我要指示你的地方去。’

4 So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.

4 亚伯拉罕就离开迦勒底人的地方，在哈兰住了下来。他父亲过世以后，上帝又领他到你们现在住的地方。

5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.

5 当时在这片土地上，上帝没有给他任何产业，他甚至连立足之地也没有。但上帝应许要把这片土地赐给他和他的后裔作产业，尽管那时候亚伯拉罕还没有儿子。

6 God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

6 上帝又说，‘你的后裔必流落异乡，被奴役和虐待四百年。

7 ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’

7 但我必惩罚那奴役他们的国家，之后他们必离开那里，在这片土地上事奉我。’

8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and 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.

8 上帝又赐给亚伯拉罕割礼之约。所以，亚伯拉罕生以撒后第八天为他行了割礼。后来，以撒生了雅各，雅各生了十二位先祖。

9 Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

9 “先祖们嫉妒自己的弟弟约瑟，把他卖到了埃及。但上帝一直与他同在，

10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

10 救他脱离一切危难，又赐他过人的智慧，使他在埃及法老面前得到恩宠，官拜宰相治理全国，并管理王室。

11 Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

11 “后来，埃及和迦南全境遭遇饥荒，灾情严重，我们的先祖们断了粮。

12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.

12 雅各听说埃及有粮，就派先祖们去那里买粮，那是我们的先祖初次去埃及。

13 On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.

13 他们第二次去的时候，约瑟才和弟兄们相认，法老也知道了他的家族。

14 Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.

14 后来，约瑟派人去把父亲雅各和全族七十五人都接到埃及。

15 So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

15 雅各和其他先祖们便定居埃及，直到去世。

16 Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

16 后来他们的遗体被带回示剑，安葬在亚伯拉罕买自哈抹子孙的墓地里。

17 As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.

17 “上帝对亚伯拉罕应许的日子快到的时侯，以色列人在埃及的人口已大大增加。

18 Then another king, who knew nothing of Joseph, arose over Egypt.

18 后来埃及有一位不认识约瑟的新王登基。

19 He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

19 他用毒计苦害我们的同胞，虐待我们的祖先，强令他们把婴孩抛弃，不让婴孩存活。

20 At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

20 那时，摩西出生了，长得俊美非凡 。他的父母在家里偷偷地抚养了他三个月，

21 When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

21 最后把他放到外面。法老的女儿救了他，收为养子。

22 So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

22 “摩西学会了埃及人一切的学问，成为一个说话办事很有能力的人。

23 When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

23 他四十岁那年决定去探望自己的同胞以色列人。

24 And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.

24 他到了他们那里，看见一个埃及人正在欺负以色列人，就打抱不平，杀了那个埃及人。

25 He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

25 摩西以为同胞们会明白上帝要借着他的手拯救他们，可是他们并不明白。

26 The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

26 第二天，他看见两个以色列人在打架，就上前劝解说，‘你们二位是同胞，为什么互相伤害呢？’

27 But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?

27 不料那个欺负人的推开摩西说，‘谁立你做我们的首领和审判官？

28 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’

28 难道你要杀我，像昨天杀那个埃及人一样吗？’

29 At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.

29 摩西听了这话，就逃到米甸寄居，在那里生了两个儿子。

30 After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

30 “过了四十年，在西奈山的旷野，有天使在荆棘的火焰中向摩西显现。

31 When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:

31 摩西见状很惊奇，正要上前看个究竟，就听见主说，

32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

32 ‘我是你祖先的上帝，是亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的上帝。’ 摩西战战兢兢，不敢观看。

33 Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

33 主又说，‘脱下你脚上的鞋，因为你所站的地方是圣地。

34 I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

34 我已清楚看见我子民在埃及所受的苦难，也听见了他们的哀叹，我下来要救他们。你来，我要派你回埃及。’

35 This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

35 “百姓曾拒绝这位摩西，说，‘谁立你做我们的首领和审判官？’上帝却借着在荆棘中显现的天使亲自差遣他，立他为首领和拯救者。

36 He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

36 摩西带领以色列人出埃及，过红海，越旷野，四十年间行了许多神迹奇事。

37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

37 就是这位摩西曾对以色列人说，‘上帝要在你们中间兴起一位像我一样的先知。’

38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

38 这位摩西曾在旷野的会众中与我们祖先在一起，又在西奈山上与向他传信息的天使在一起，并且领受了生命之道传给我们。

39 But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

39 “可是我们的祖先不肯听从他，甚至弃绝他，心里对埃及恋恋不舍。

40 They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

40 他们对亚伦说，‘为我们造一些神像来带领我们吧！因为带我们出埃及的那个摩西不知怎样了。’

41 At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

41 于是，他们造了一个牛犊像，向它献祭，并为自己所做的事沾沾自喜。

42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

42 因此，上帝转脸不顾他们，任由他们祭拜日月星辰，正如先知书的记载， “‘以色列家啊， 在旷野的四十年间， 你们向我献过祭物和供物吗？

43 You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

43 你们抬着为祭拜而造的神像， 就是摩洛的帐篷和你们理番神明的星， 所以我要把你们流放到比巴比伦还远的地方。’

44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

44 “我们的祖先在旷野的时候，一直带着安放约柜的圣幕，这圣幕是上帝吩咐摩西照他所看见的样式造的。

45 And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

45 后来我们的祖先承受了圣幕。上帝从我们祖先面前赶走外族人，使他们得到了应许之地。他们同约书亚把圣幕带到那里，一直到大卫的时代。

46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

46 大卫蒙上帝悦纳，祈求为雅各的上帝预备一个居所。

47 But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.

47 结果是他的儿子所罗门为上帝建成了圣殿。

48 However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

48 “其实至高的上帝并不住人造的殿，祂曾借着先知说，

49 ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?

49 主说：‘天是我的宝座，地是我的脚凳，你们要为我造怎样的殿宇？哪里可作我的安歇之处？

50 Has not My hand made all these things?’

50 这一切不都是我亲手创造的吗？’

51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

51 “你们这些顽固不化、心与耳未受割礼的人，经常抗拒圣灵，所作所为和你们祖先如出一辙！

52 Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

52 哪一位先知没有被你们祖先迫害？那些预言义者弥赛亚要来的人也被你们的祖先杀害。如今你们竟出卖了那位义者，杀害了祂！

53 you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

53 你们接受了上帝借天使所传的律法，竟不遵守！”

54 On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

54 众人听了这番话，怒火中烧，对司提凡咬牙切齿。

55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

55 司提凡却被圣灵充满，定睛望天，看见上帝的荣耀和站在上帝右边的耶稣，

56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

56 就说：“看啊！我看见天开了，人子站在上帝的右边。”

57 At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.

57 众人大喊大叫，捂着耳朵，一拥而上，

58 They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

58 把司提凡拉到城外，用石头打他。指控他的人把他们的衣服交给一个名叫扫罗的青年保管。

59 While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

59 在乱石击打之下，司提凡呼求说：“主耶稣啊，接收我的灵魂吧！”然后跪下高声说：

60 Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

60 “主啊，不要追究他们的罪！”说完后，就断气了。