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

¹In veliki duhovnik reče: Je li to tako?

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,

²On pa reče: Možje, bratje in očetje, poslušajte! Bog slave se je prikazal očetu našemu Abrahamu, ko je bil v Mezopotamiji, preden se je nastanil v Haranu,

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

³in mu je rekel: Odidi iz zemlje svoje in od rodovine svoje, in pojdi v zemljo, ki ti jo pokažem.

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.

⁴Tedaj je odšel iz zemlje Kaldejske in se je nastanil v Haranu. In odtod, ko je bil oče njegov umrl, ga je Bog preselil v to zemljo, v kateri vi sedaj prebivate.

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.

⁵In ni mu dal dediščine v njej, še za stopinjo noge ne, in jo je obljubil dati njemu v posest in semenu njegovemu za njim, ko še ni imel sina.

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.

⁶Rekel je pa Bog tako: „Seme tvoje bo priseljeno v tuji zemlji, in sužnosti ga podvržejo in hudo bodo ravnali ž njim štiristo let.

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

⁷Toda narod, ki mu bodo sužnjevali, bom sodil jaz, je dejal Bog; in potem izidejo in bodo meni služili na tem mestu“.

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.

⁸In dal mu je zavezo obreze; in tako je rodil Izaka in ga je obrezal osmi dan, in Izak Jakoba, in Jakob dvanajstere očake.

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

⁹In očaki so iz nevoščljivosti prodali Jožefa v Egipt; a Bog je bil ž njim

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.

¹⁰in ga je rešil iz vseh nadlog njegovih in mu dal milost in modrost pred Faraonom, kraljem egiptovskim, ki ga je postavil za poglavarja nad Egiptom in vso hišo svojo.

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

¹¹Prišla pa je lakota nad vso zemljo Egiptovsko in Kanaansko in velika nadloga; in niso našli živeža očetje naši.

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

¹²Ko pa je slišal Jakob, da je žita v Egiptu, je poslal tja očete naše prvikrat;

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

¹³in v drugo so spoznali Jožefa bratje njegovi, in znana je postala Faraonu rodovina Jožefova.

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

¹⁴Pošlje pa Jožef in pokliče očeta svojega Jakoba in vse sorodstvo svoje, petinsedemdeset duš.

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

¹⁵In prišel je Jakob doli v Egipt, in tam je umrl on in očetje naši;

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.

¹⁶in prinesli so jih v Sihem in položili v grob, ki ga je kupil Abraham za ceno v srebru od sinov Hemorjevih v Sihemu.

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

¹⁷Ko se je pa bližal čas obljube, ki jo je prisegel Bog Abrahamu, je raslo ljudstvo in se množilo v Egiptu,

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

¹⁸dokler ni začel vladati v Egiptu drug kralj, ki ni poznal Jožefa.

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.

¹⁹Ta je zvijačno ravnal z rodom našim in zatiral očete naše, da so morali izpostavljati otroke svoje, da bi ne ostali živi.

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

²⁰V tem času se je rodil Mojzes in je bil prijeten [Dobesedno: lep.] Bogu; in tri mesece so ga redili v hiši očeta njegovega.

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

²¹A ko je bil izpostavljen, ga je vzela hči Faraonova in ga je odgojila sebi za sina.

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

²²In naučil se je Mojzes vse modrosti Egipčanov, in je bil mogočen v svojih besedah in dejanjih.

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.

²³Ko je pa dopolnil štirideset let, mu je prišlo na misel, obiskati brate svoje, sinove Izraelove.

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

²⁴In ko je videl nekoga, da trpi krivico, ga je obranil in v maščevanje tega, ki je krivico trpel, je ubil Egipčana.

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

²⁵Menil je pa, da njegovi bratje umejo, da jim hoče Bog po njegovi roki dati odrešenje; toda oni niso tega razumeli.

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?’

²⁶A drugi dan je prišel k njim, ko so se prepirali, in jih je miril, rekoč: Možje, vi ste bratje; zakaj delate krivico drug drugemu?

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

²⁷Tisti pa, ki je delal krivico bližnjemu, ga odpahne, rekoč: „Kdo te je postavil za poglavarja in sodnika nad nami?

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

²⁸Ali me hočeš ubiti, kakor si včeraj ubil Egipčana?“

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

²⁹Mojzes je pa pobegnil na to besedo in je bil tujec v zemlji Madianski, kjer je rodil dva sina.

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.

³⁰In ko se je dopolnilo štirideset let, se mu je prikazal v puščavi gore Sinajske angel v plamenu gorečega grma.

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

³¹Ko je pa Mojzes to videl, se je začudil prikazni; in ko pristopi, da bi pogledal, se mu oglasi glas Gospodov:

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„Jaz sem Bog očetov tvojih, Bog Abrahamov in Izakov in Jakobov“. Mojzes pa strepeta in si ne upa tja pogledati.

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

³³Reče pa mu Gospod: „Sezuj obuvalo z nog svojih; kajti mesto, ki na njem stojiš, je sveta zemlja.

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

³⁴Dobro sem videl stisko ljudstva svojega, ki je v Egiptu, in njih zdihovanje sem slišal; in stopil sem doli, da jih rešim. In sedaj pridi, pošljem te v Egipt“.

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.

³⁵Tega Mojzesa, ki so se ga bili odrekli, rekoč: Kdo te je postavil za poglavarja in sodnika? tega je Bog poslal kot poglavarja in odrešenika s pomočno roko angela, ki se mu je bil prikazal v grmu.

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

³⁶Ta jih je izpeljal, delajoč čudeže in znamenja v Egiptu in na Rdečem morju in v puščavi štirideset let.

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

³⁷Ta je tisti Mojzes, ki je rekel sinovom Izraelovim: „Proroka vam obudi Gospod Bog izmed bratov vaših kakor mene“.

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,

³⁸Ta je tisti, ki je bil pri zboru v puščavi z angelom, ki mu je govoril na gori Sinajski, in z očeti našimi; tisti, ki je prejel besede življenja, da nam jih da;

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

³⁹ki mu pa niso hoteli biti pokorni očetje naši, ampak so ga zavrgli in obrnili srca svoja v Egipt,

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

⁴⁰rekši Aronu: „Naredi nam bogove, ki naj hodijo pred nami; zakaj temu Mojzesu, ki nas je izpeljal iz zemlje Egiptovske, ne vemo, kaj se mu je zgodilo“.

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

⁴¹In ulili so tele tiste dni in so darovali daritev maliku in se veselili izdelka svojih rok.

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?

⁴²Bog pa se je odvrnil in jih je izdal, naj služijo zvezdam neba [Dobesedno: vojski nebeški.], kakor je pisano v knjigi prorokov: „Ali ste mi darovali klalne in žgalne daritve štirideset let v puščavi, hiša Izraelova?

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.’

⁴³temuč nosili ste šator Molohov in boga Remfana zvezdo, podobe, ki ste jih naredili, da se jim poklanjate. Zato pa vas preselim onostran Babilona“.

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;

⁴⁴Šator pričevanja so imeli očetje naši v puščavi, kakor je ukazal ta, ki je rekel Mojzesu, naj ga naredi po podobi, ki jo je videl.

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,

⁴⁵Ta šator so tudi prejeli očetje naši in so ga sem prinesli z Jozuetom, ko so posedli deželo poganov, ki jih je izgnal Bog izpred obličja očetov naših, do dni Davidovih;

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

⁴⁶ki je našel milost pred Bogom in je prosil, da bi našel prebivališče Bogu Jakobovemu.

⁴⁷But Solomon built him a house.

⁴⁷A Salomon mu je sezidal hišo.

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

⁴⁸Ali Najvišji ne prebiva v svetiščih, z rokami narejenih, kakor pravi prorok:

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?

⁴⁹„Nebo mi je stol, a zemlja podnožje nogam mojim. Kakšno hišo mi sezidate? pravi Gospod; ali katero naj bo mesto počivanju mojemu?

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

⁵⁰Ni li roka moja vsega tega naredila?“

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

⁵¹Trdovratni in neobrezanih src in ušes! Vi se vedno upirate Duhu svetemu, kakor očetje vaši, tako vi.

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.

⁵²Katerega od prorokov niso preganjali očetje vaši? In pomorili so te, ki so naprej oznanjali prihod Pravičnika, čigar izdajalci in ubijalci ste sedaj postali vi,

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

⁵³ki ste prejeli postavo po uredbi angelov, in je niste ohranili.

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

⁵⁴Ko so pa to slišali, jih je zbodlo v srce, in škripali so z zobmi zoper njega.

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,

⁵⁵On pa, poln svetega Duha, se ozre na nebo in ugleda slavo Božjo in Jezusa, stoječega na desnici Božji,

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

⁵⁶in reče: Glej nebesa vidim odprta in Sina človekovega, stoječega na desnici Božji.

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

⁵⁷In zakriče z močnim glasom in si zamaše ušesa pa planejo ene misli nanj,

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

⁵⁸in ga ženo ven iz mesta in lučajo kamenje vanj. In priče položé oblačila svoja pred noge mladeniču, ki mu je bilo ime Savel.

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

⁵⁹In pobijajo s kamenjem Štefana, ki kliče h Gospodu in reče: Gospod Jezus, sprejmi Duha mojega!In poklekne in zavpije z močnim glasom: Gospod, ne štej jim tega greha! In rekši to, je zaspal.

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.

⁶⁰In poklekne in zavpije z močnim glasom: Gospod, ne štej jim tega greha! In rekši to, je zaspal.