¹The high priest said, “Are these things so?”

¹O baro rashai phushlia katar o Stephen te si chaches.

²He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

²O Stephen phendia, "Manushale, murhe phral, ai murhe dada ashunen: O Del le putierako sikadilo amare dadeske o Abraham kana sas ande Mesopotamia, mai anglal sar te beshel ando Haran, ai phendia leske.

³and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’ Genesis 12:1

³Zhatar anda cho them, ai mek che niamuria, ai zha ando them kai sikavava tuke.

⁴Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

⁴Antunchi gelo anda them kai sas le Chaldeans, ai avilo ando Haran; ai kotsar, kana mulo lesko dat, O Del andia les ando them kai san tume akana.

⁵He 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 seed after him, when he still had no child.

⁵O Del chi dia les kotse chi iek kher, chi phuv te tho o punrho. Numa O Del shinadia ke dela les o them, ai kodola kai avena pala leste avela vi lengo them kana wo merela, inker ande kodia vriama o Abraham nas les glati.

⁶God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

⁶Ai eta so phendia lesko O Del, kodola kai avena pala tute traiina andek them, ai won avena slugi, ai chinuina le shtar shela bersh.

⁷‘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.’ Genesis 15:13-14

⁷Numa o them kai chinuisardia le, me dava les pe kris, phendia O Del, ai porme pala kodia anklen avri, ai podaina man katse.

⁸He 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.

⁸O Del dia o Abraham o kontrakto le shinimasko: O Abraham sas les iek shav o Isaak ai shindia lesko boriko le oxtoto dies. Ai o Isaak sas o dat le Iakovosko; ai o Iakov sas les desh u dui shave.

⁹“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

⁹Numa le phral le Josephoske xolaile po Joseph, ai bichinde les te avel sluga ande Egypt. Numa O Del sas lesa,

¹⁰and 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.

¹⁰ai ankalavelas les anda sa leske baiuria, ai dia les te avel gojaver, ai o Joseph pelo drago le Pharaohnoske kai sas o amperato le Egyptako; ai thodia le Josephos te lel pesko vas te avel baro pe Egypt ai pe sa o kher le Pharaohnosko.

¹¹Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

¹¹Rimosaile e phuv ai chi mai bariolas xaben ande Egypt ai vi ando Canaan, ai sas baro nekazo; ai amare dada chi mai arakhenas xaben te pravarenpe.

¹²But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

¹²O Iakov ashundia ke sas jiv ande Egypt, ai tradia amare daden e pervo data.

¹³On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.

¹³Ai e duito data le phral le Josefoske prinzharde les; ai o Pharaohono diape gor anda che familia sas o Josef.

¹⁴Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

¹⁴Porme o Josef tradia te anen le Iakovos kai sas lesko dat, ai sa peska niamon kai sas eftavardesh tai panzh zhene.

¹⁵Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

¹⁵O Iakov avilo ande Egypt, ai mulo kotse, ai vi amare dada.

¹⁶and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

¹⁶Ai angerde le ando Shechem, ai thode le ando groposhevo kai o Abraham chindiasas lovensa katar le shave le Hamoroske, o dat le Shechemosko.

¹⁷“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁷E vriama pasholas kai trobulas te kerdiol so O Del shinadia sas le Abrahamoske, ai o narodo butiolas ande Egypt,

¹⁸until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.

¹⁸zhi kai kerdilia aver amperato kai chi zhanelas le Josefos.

¹⁹The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

¹⁹Kodo amperato xoxadia amare narodos, ai chinuisardia amare narodos, kana phendia lenge pe zor te meken tsinorhen te meren.

²⁰At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

²⁰Ande kodia vriama o Moses biandilo, ai wo sas drago ai lasho angla iakha le Devleske, sas pravardo trin shon ando kher peske dadesko;

²¹When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

²¹ai kana mekle les, e shei le Pharoahnoske lia les, ai bariardia les sar ta avino lako shav.

²²Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

²²O Moses sas sichardo ande sa e goji le Egyptonge, ai zuralo sas kana divinilas ai kana kerel vari so.

²³But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” , the children of Israel.

²³Shtarvardesh bershengo sas kana avilia leske po ilo te zhal te dikhel peske phralen kai sas Zhiduvuria.

²⁴Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

²⁴Dikhlia sar marenas iekes, ai mardia pe wo anda kuko kai sas mardo, ai dia iek le Egyptianos.

²⁵He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

²⁵Wo gindilas ke leske phral le Zhiduvuria haliarenas ke O Del si te tradel lenge o skepimos katar o Moses; numa won chi haliarde.

²⁶“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

²⁶Pe terharin o Moses arakhlia duie Zhidovon kai marenaspe, ai wo manglia te aterdiarel le, ai mothol lenge, "Murhe vortacha, tume phral san, sostar maren tume?" Numa iek anda lende kai marelas pe kukulesa, spidia le Mosesos,

²⁷But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

²⁷ai phenel, "Kon thodia tu baro ai te des ame kris tu?"

²⁸Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ Exodus 2:14

²⁸Ai phendia leske, "Manges te mudares i man sar mudardia arachi le Egyptianos?"

²⁹Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

²⁹Kana ashundia o Moses kodola vorbi liape an nashlo, ai gelo andek them kai bushol Midian, ai kotse sas les dui shave.

³⁰“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

³⁰Shtarvardesh bersh pala kodia, iek angelo sikadilo leske ande pusta kai sas o plai kai busholas Sinai ande parha kai sas ande krenzha kai phabolas.

³¹When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

³¹Kana dikhlia kodia o Moses, chudisailo anda so dikhlia, ai sar pasholas o glaso le Devlesko, ashundilia leske, phenelas,

³²‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Exodus 3:6 Moses trembled, and dared not look.

³²"Me sim O Del che dadengo, O Del le Abrahamosko, ai O Del le Isaakosko, ai O Del le Iakovosko. "O Moses izdralas, ai chi tromalas te dikhel.

³³The Lord said to him, ‘Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

³³O Del phenel leske, "Le le papucha anda che punrhe, ke po phuv kai beshes swuntsola.

³⁴I 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 into Egypt.’ Exodus 3:5,7-8,10

³⁴Dikhlem o nekazo murhe narodosko kai si ande Egypt, ashundem lengo tsipimos, ai hulistem akana te ankalavav le avri. Akana zha, Me tradava tu ande Egypt.

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.

³⁵Sa kodo Moses kai le Zhiduvuria gonisarde les, ai phende leske, "Kon thodia tu baro ai te des kris?" O Del tradia les sar baro ai skepitori la putierasa le angeloski kai sikadilia sas leske ande krenzha.

³⁶This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

³⁶O Moses si kai ankaladia le Zhidovon andai Egypt, ai kai kerdia mirakluria ai semnuria ande kodo them, kai pai e loli, ai ande pusta shtarvardesh bersh.

³⁷This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. TR adds “You shall listen to him.” ’ Deuteronomy 18:15

³⁷Ai pale o Moses phendia le Zhidovonge, O Del tradela tumenge iek profeto sar mande kei avela iek anda tumaro narodo.

³⁸This 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 living oracles to give to us,

³⁸Wo si kai sas mashkar le Zhiduvuria kai sas chidine ande pusta, wo sas amare dadensa ai le angelosa kai delas duma lesa pe plaiing kai bushol Sinai, ai o Moses phendia le vorbi ka amare daden, ai lia le vorbi le Devleske te anel le amende;

³⁹to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

³⁹Numa amare dada chi mangle te lenpe pala leste, chi mangle kodo zakono ai ande pengo ilo mangenas te zhan palpale ande Egypt.

⁴⁰saying 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 don’t know what has become of him.’ Exodus 32:1

⁴⁰Ai phende ieke manusheske kai busholas Aaron, ker amenge dela kai phiren angla amende ke o Moses kai ankaladia ame avri andai Egypt, chi zhanas so kerdilia ande leste.

⁴¹They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

⁴¹Ai kerde ande kodola diesa iek vitselo sumnakuno, ai mudarde ieke zhegania ai phende te avel angla vitselo, ai raduisaile savorhe anda so kerde ande penge vas.

⁴²But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, This idiom could also be translated “host of heaven,” or “angelic beings,” or “heavenly bodies.” as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

⁴²Antunchi O Del durilo lendar, ai meklia len te rhuginpe kal chererhaia ai kal shunuto ai kal dieli kai si ando cheri; sar si ramome ande klishka le profetonge, tume narodo andai Israel, mange si kai dian le zhigenien ai ande murho anav kai mudardian le shtarvardesh bersh ande pusta?

⁴³You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away Amos 5:25-27 beyond Babylon.’

⁴³Nichi, numa angerdian e tsera le Devleski kai busholas Moloch, ai e chererhai kai sas tumaro Del o Remphan, kodola patreturia kai tume kerdian te rhugin tume lende; anda kodia angerava tume mai dur de sar e Babylon.

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;

⁴⁴Ande pusta amare dada sas le iek tsera kai sas andre ramome le zakonuria. Kodia tsera sas kerdi sar O Del phendia, sas le Mosesoske te kerel la, ai phendia sas le Mosesoske te kerel saikfielo sai kodia tsera kai dikhlia;

⁴⁵which 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,

⁴⁵Kodia tsera sas dini ka amaro narodo kai avilo pala amende, ai angerde la pensa kana sas o Josef o baro line o them katar le thema kai O Del gonisardia anda lende. Ai beshlo zhi kai avilo o David.

⁴⁶who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

⁴⁶O David sas drago le Devleske, ai manglia te kerel ek kher le Devleske, pala O Del o Iakovosko.

⁴⁷But Solomon built him a house.

⁴⁷Numa o Solomon kerdia o kher le Devlesko.

⁴⁸However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

⁴⁸Numa O Del chi beshel anda so sas kerdo andel vas le manusheske, sar mothol o profeto.

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?

⁴⁹O rhaio si murhi amperetsia ai e phuv si kai phirav savestar kher kerena mange? Mothol O Del. Vai kai avela o than kai hodiniva?

⁵⁰Didn’t my hand make all these things?’ Isaiah 66:1-2

⁵⁰Pate nai murho vas kai kerdia sa kadala bucha?

⁵¹“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

⁵¹Tume manushale kai chi pachan o mui ai kai tumaro ilo ai tumare khan phandade le ka glaso le Devlesko, ai chi meken O Swunto Duxo te del ande tumaro ilo, vi tume sar tumare dadasa.

⁵²Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

⁵²Savo andal profeturia si kai tumare dada chinuisarde le ai marde le? Mudarde kodolen kai mothonas mai anglal ke si te avel O Swunto kodo kai bichindian les ai mudardian les;

⁵³You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

⁵³Tume kai sas tume dino o zakono le Devlesko katar le angeluria, ai chi lian tume pa kado zakono.

⁵⁴Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

⁵⁴Kana ashunde kodala vorbi, xolaile, ai kristsiinas andal dand pe leste.

⁵⁵But 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,

⁵⁵Numa o Stephen kai sas pherdo Swunto Duxo, vazdia le iakha karing o rhaio, ai dikhlia o barimos le Devlesko, ai le Kristos ande punrhende sar beshelas pe rik e chachi le Devleski.

⁵⁶and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

⁵⁶Ai phendia, "Eta, Dikhav o cheri sar si phuterdo, ai O Shav le Manushesko ande punrhende pe rik e chachi le Devleski."

⁵⁷But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

⁵⁷Savorhe tsipinas, ai phandade penge khan, ai savorhe xokle pe leste, ai angerde les avri anda foro, ai shude bax anda leste te mudaren les; le manush kai shudenas bax anda leste dine penge tsalia ka terno manush te garavel le, wo busholas Saul.

⁵⁸They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵⁹Ande kodia kai shudenas le baxensa anda leste o Stephen, rhugilaspe ai motholas, "Devla, le murho traio tute."

⁵⁹They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

⁶⁰Porme pelo ande changende, ai tsipisardia zurales, "Devla, na xoliavol pe lende anda so kerde," ai kana phendia kodola vorbi mulo.

⁶⁰He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.