The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .vii. Chapter.

THen sayde y^e chefe prest: is it even so? [ A] And he sayde: ye men / brethren and fa∣thers / harken to. The God of glory ap¦pered vnto oure father Abrahā whyll he was* 1.1 yet in Mesopotamia / before he dwelt in Char¦ran / & sayd vnto him: come out of thy contre / and from thy kynred / & come into the londe / which I shall shewe the. Then came he out of the londe of Chaldey / & dwelt in Charran. And after that / assone as his father was deed / * 1.2 he brought him into this lande / in which ye now dwell / & he gave him none inheritaunce in it / no not the bredeth of a fote: but promised y^t he wolde geve it to him to possesse & to his

seed after him / when as yet he had no chylde.

God verely spake on this wyse that his sea¦de shulde be a dweller in a straunge londe and that they shulde kepe them in bondage and entreate them evyll .iiii. C. yeares. But the na¦cion to whom they shalbe in bondage will I* 1.3 iudge / sayde God. And after that shall they co¦me forthe and serve me in this place. And he gave him the covenaunt of circumcision. And he begat Isaac / and circumcised him the viii. daye / and Isaac begat Iacob / and Iacob the twelve patriarkes.

And the patriarkes havinge indignaciō sol¦de Ioseph into Egipte. And God was with [ B] * 1.4 him and delivered him out of all his adversi∣ties. And gave him faveour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him governer over Egipte / and over all his housholde.

Then came ther a derth over all the londe of Egipt & Canaan / & great affliccion / that our fathers founde no sustenaūce. But when Ia∣cob hearde that ther was corne in Egipte / he sent oure fathers fyrst / and at the seconde ty∣me / Ioseph was knowen of his brethren / and* 1.5 Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pha¦rao. Then sent Ioseph & caused his father to be brought and all his kynne / thre score and xv. soules. And Iacob descended into Egipte and dyed bothe he and oure fathers / and we∣re* 1.6 translated into Sichem / ond were put in y^e sepulere that Abraham bought for money of the sonnes of Emor / at Sichem.

When y^e tyme of y^e promes drue nye (which* 1.7 God had sworme to Abraham) the people gre¦we [ C] and multiplied in Egipte / till another kyn¦ge arose which knewe not of Ioseph. The sa∣me dealte suttelly with oure kynred / & evyll intreated oure fathers / and made them to cast oute their younge chyldren / that they shuld* 1.8 not remayne alyve. The same tyme was Mo¦ses borne / and was a proper childe in y^e sight of God / which was norisshed vp in his fa∣thers housse thre monethes. When he was cast out / Pharoes doughter toke him vp / and norisshed him vp for her awne sonne. And Moses was learned in all maner wisdome of the Egipcians / and was mighty in dedes & in wordes.

And when he was full forty yeare olde / it came into his hert to visit his brethren / the chyldren of Israhel. And when he sawe one of them suffre wronge / he defended him / and avenged his quarell that had the harme done to him / and smote the Egypcian. For he sup∣posed hys brethren wolde have vnderstonde how y^t God by his hondes shuld save them But they vnderstode not.

And the next daye he shewed him selfe vn¦to [ D] thē as they strove / and wolde have set thē* 1.9 at one agayne sayinge: Syrs / ye are brethren / why hurte ye one another? But he that dyd his neghbour wronge / thrust him awaye say∣inge: who made y^e a rular & a iudge amonge vs? What / wilt thou kyll me / as thou dyddest the Egyptian yester daye? Then fleed Moses

at that sayenge / & was a stranger in the londe of Madian / where he begat two sonnes.

And when .xl. yeares were expired / ther ap¦pered* 1.10 to him in the wyldernes of mounte Sy¦na an angell of the Lorde in a flamme of fyre in a busshe. When Moses sawe it / he won∣dred at the syght. And as he drue neare to be∣holde / the voyce of the Lorde came vnto him: I am y^• God of thy fathers / the God of Abra¦ham / the God of Isaac / & the God of Iacob. Moses trembled & durst not beholde. Then sayde y^• Lorde to him: Put of thy showes from thy fete / for the place where thou stondest / is holy grounde. I have perfectly sene the af∣fliccion of my people which is in Egypte / and I have hearde their gronynge / and am come doune to delyver them. And now come and I will sende the into Egypte. [ E]

This Moses whom they forsoke sayinge: who made the a ruelar and a iudge: the same God sent bothe a ruler & delyverer / / by y^• hon∣des of the angell which appered to him in the* 1.11 busshe. And the same brought them out she∣wynge wonders & signes in Egypte / & in the reed see & in the wyldernes .xl. yeares. This is that Moses which sayde vnto the chyldrē of Israel: A Prophet shall the Lorde youre* 1.12 God rayse vp vnto you of youre brethren ly∣ke* 1.13 vnto me / him shall ye heare.

This is he that was in y^• congregacion / in the wyldernes with the angell which spake to him in y^• moūte Syna / & with oure fathers. This man receaved the worde of lyfe to geve

vnto vs / to whō oure fathers wolde not obeye but cast it from them / & in their hertes turned backe agayne into Egypte / sayinge vnto Aa∣ron:* 1.14 Make vs goddes to goo before vs. For this Moses that brought vs out of the lon∣de of Egypte / we wote not what is become of him. And they made a calfe in those dayes / & offered sacrifice vnto the ymage / and reioy∣sed in the workes of their awne hondes.

Then God turned him selfe / & gave them vp / that they shuld worship the starres of the skye / as it is written in the boke of the prophe¦tes.* 1.15 O ye of y^• housse of Israel gave ye to me sacrefices & meate offerynges / by the space of xl. yeares in the wildernes▪ And ye toke vnto you the tabernacle of Moloch / and the starre of youre god Remphan / figures which ye ma∣de to worshippe them. And I will translate you beyonde Babylon. [ F]

Oure fathers had the tabernacle of witnes in y^• wyldernes / as he had apoynted thē spea∣kynge* 1.16 vnto Moses / that he shuld make it acor¦dynge to the fassion that he had sene. Which tabernacle oure fathers receaved / & brought it in with Iosue into the possession of the gen∣tyls which God drave out before the face of* 1.17 oure fathers vnto the tyme of David / which founde favour before God / & desyred that he myght fynde a tabernacle for the God of Ia∣cob. But Salomon bylt him an housse.

How be it he that is h yest of all / dwelleth not in tēple * 1.18 made with hondes / as saith the Prophete: Heven is my seate / and erth is my

fote stole / what housse will ye bylde for me sayth the Lorde? or what place is it that I shuld rest in? hath not my honde made all these thinges?

Ye stiffenecked & of vncircumcised hertes and eares: ye have all wayes resisted the holy goost: as youre fathers dyd / so do ye. Which of the prophetes have not youre fathers per∣secuted? And they have slayne them / which shewed before of the commynge of that iust / whom ye have now betrayed and mordred. And ye also have receaved a lawe by the ordi∣naunce of angels / and have not kept it. [ G]

When they hearde these thinges / their her¦tes clave a sunder / and they gnasshed on him with their tethe. But he beynge full of the ho¦ly goost / loked vp stedfastlye with his eyes into heven & sawe the glorie of God / & Iesus stondynge on the ryght honde of God / & say∣de: beholde / I se the hevens open / & the sonne of man stondynge on the ryght honde of god. Then they gave a shute with a loude voyce / and stopped their eares and ranne apon him all at once / and caste him out of the cite / & sto∣ned him. And the witnesses layde doune their clothes at a yonge mannes fete named Saul.* 1.19 And they stoned steven callynge on and say∣inge: Lorde Iesu receave my sprete. And he kneled doune and cryed with a loude voyce: Lorde laye not this synne to their charge. And when he had thus spoken / he fell a sle∣pe.▪

Notes

• * 1.1

  The ser∣mon of Stephin.
• * 1.2

  gen. xij. a
• * 1.3

  ge. xviij. gen. xxj. gen. xxv ge. xxix.
• * 1.4

  Patriar∣ckes. ge. xxx. ••. xx v. genesis. xxx viij. ge. ••lj. e
• * 1.5

  gen. xliij. gen. xlv.
• * 1.6

  gen. xlvj ge. xlix. gene. l. b.
• * 1.7

  exo. j. a
• * 1.8

  exo. ij. a.
• * 1.9

  exo. ij. ••
• * 1.10

  exo. iij. a
• * 1.11

  exo. vij. and .viij. ix. x. xi. xiiij exo. xvj.
• * 1.12

  deu. xviij
• * 1.13

  exo. xix.
• * 1.14

  ex. xxxij
• * 1.15

  aino. v. ••
• * 1.16

  ex. xxv d he. vii••. b iosua. iij c
• * 1.17

  j. re. xvj. ps. cxxxj
• * 1.18

  God dw¦elleth not in tem∣ples or churches made wi∣th hādes.
• * 1.19

  Saul