Acts 7
1 The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
Pea toki pehē ʻe he taulaʻeiki lahi, “ʻOku moʻoni ʻae ngaahi meʻa ni?
2 He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Pea pehē ʻe ia, “ʻAe kau tangata kāinga mo e mātuʻa, mou fanongo; naʻe hā mai ʻae ʻOtua lāngilangi ki heʻetau tamai ko ʻEpalahame, ʻi heʻene kei ʻi Mesopōtemia, kae teʻeki nofo ia ʻi Kalana,
3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’
ʻO ne pehē kiate ia, ‘ʻAlu ʻi ho fonua, mei ho kāinga, pea ke ʻalu ki he fonua te u fakahā kiate koe.’
4 Then 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.
Pea toki haʻu ia mei he fonua ko Kalitia, ʻo nofo ʻi Kalana: pea ʻi he pekia ʻa ʻene tamai, pea toki hiki ia mei ai ki he fonua ni, ʻaia ʻoku mou nofo ai ni.
5 He 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 offspring after him, when he still had no child.
Pea naʻe ʻikai te ne foaki kiate ia ha ʻapi ʻi ai, pe ha potu ke tuʻu ai hono vaʻe: ka naʻa ne fakaʻilo te ne foaki ia moʻona, pea mo hono hako ki mui ʻiate ia, ka naʻe teʻeki ai haʻane fānau.
6 God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
Pea naʻe pehē ʻae folofola ʻae ʻOtua, ‘ʻE nofo ʻāunofo hono hako ʻi ha fonua kehe; pea ʻe fakapōpulaʻi ʻakinautolu ʻe he kakai, mo ngaohi kovi ʻi he taʻu ʻe fāngeau.’
7 ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve me in this place.’
Pea naʻe pehē ʻe he ʻOtua, Te u tautea ʻae puleʻanga te nau pōpula ki ai: pea hili ia, te nau haʻu mei ai, ʻo tauhiʻi au ʻi he potu ni.
8 He 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.
Pea ne tuku kiate ia ʻae fuakava ʻoe kamu: pea naʻe tupu ʻa ʻAisake, pea kamu ia ʻi hono ʻaho valu; pea tupu ʻia ʻAisake ʻa Sēkope; pea tupu ʻia Sēkope, ʻae houʻeiki mātuʻa ʻe toko hongofulu ma toko ua.
9 “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him
“Pea naʻe loto meheka ʻae kau mātuʻa kia Siosefa, pea naʻa nau fakatau ia ki ʻIsipite: ka naʻe ʻiate ia ʻae ʻOtua,
10 and 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.
ʻO ne fakamoʻui ia mei heʻene mamahi kotoa pē, pea naʻa ne pule ke ʻofeina ia mo poto ʻi he ʻao ʻo Felo ko e tuʻi ʻo ʻIsipite; pea ne fakanofo ia ko e pule ki ʻIsipite mo hono fale kotoa pē.
11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
Pea naʻe hoko ʻae honge mo e mamahi lahi ki he fonua kotoa pē ʻo ʻIsipite mo Kēnani: pea naʻe ʻikai maʻu ha meʻakai ʻe heʻetau ngaahi tamai.
12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
Pea ʻi he fanongo ʻa Sēkope ʻoku ʻi ʻIsipite ʻae uite, naʻa ne tomuʻa fekau atu) ʻa ʻetau ngaahi tamai.
13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.
Pea ʻi hono tuʻo ua [hifo], naʻe fakahā ʻa Siosefa ki hono kāinga; pea naʻe fakahā ʻae kāinga ʻo Siosefa kia Felo.
14 Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
Pea toki fekau ʻe Siosefa, ke ʻomi ʻa ʻene tamai ko Sēkope, mo hono kāinga kotoa pē, ko e toko fitungofulu ma toko nima.
15 Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers;
Pea naʻe ʻalu hifo ʻa Sēkope ki ʻIsipite, pea naʻe pekia ai, ʻaia mo e tau ngaahi tamai.
16 and 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.
Pea naʻe fetuku ʻakinautolu ki Sikemi, ʻo tuku ki he fonualoto naʻe fakatau ʻe ʻEpalahame ʻaki ʻae ngaahi paʻanga mei he foha ʻo ʻEmoa ko e tamai ʻa Sikemi.
17 “But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
“Ka kuo fakaʻaʻau ʻo ofi ʻae kuonga naʻe talaʻofa ki ai, ʻaia naʻe fuakava ki ai ʻe he ʻOtua kia ʻEpalahame, pea tupu ʻo tokolahi ʻae kakai ʻi ʻIsipite,
18 until there arose a different king who did not know Joseph.
ʻO aʻu ki he hoko ʻae tuʻi ʻe taha, ʻaia naʻe ʻikai ʻilo ʻe ia ʻa Siosefa.
19 The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they would not stay alive.
Pea naʻe fai kākā ia ki hotau kāinga, mo fai fakamamahi ki heʻetau ngaahi tamai, pea naʻa nau lī ai kituaʻā ʻenau fānau valevale, ke ʻoua naʻa nau moʻui.
20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
Pea feʻunga mo ia naʻe fanauʻi ʻa Mōsese, pea naʻe fakaʻofoʻofa lahi ia, pea naʻe tauhi [fufū ]ia ʻi he fale ʻo ʻene tamai ʻi he māhina ʻe tolu:
21 When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.
Pea ʻi he tuku ia kituʻa, naʻe toʻo hake ia ʻe he ʻofefine ʻo Felo, pea naʻe ngaohi ia maʻane tama.
22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
Pea naʻe akonakiʻi ʻa Mōsese ʻi he poto kotoa pe ʻoe kakai ʻIsipite, pea naʻe mālohi ia ʻi he lea mo e ngaue.
23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
“Pea kuo kakato kiate ia ʻae taʻu ʻe fāngofulu, pea tupu ʻi hono loto ke ʻaʻahi ki hono kāinga ko e fānau ʻa ʻIsileli.
24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
Pea ʻi heʻene mamata ki he tokotaha naʻe teʻia taʻetotonu, naʻa ne langomakiʻi ia, ʻo totongi, ia kuo fakamālohiʻi, mo tāmateʻi ʻae tangata ʻIsipite:
25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they did not understand.
He naʻe mahalo ʻe ia kuo ʻilo ʻe hono kāinga ʻe fakamoʻui ʻe he ʻOtua ʻakinautolu ʻi hono nima: ka naʻe ʻikai te nau ʻilo.
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?’
Pea pongipongi ai, naʻa ne fakahā ia kiate kinautolu lolotonga ʻenau kē, pea ne fai ke fakalelei ʻakinautolu, ʻo ne pehē, ‘Kau tangata, ko e kāinga ʻakimoutolu; ko e hā ʻoku mo fefaikoviʻaki ai?’
27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
Ka ko ia naʻe fai kovi ki hono kaungāʻapi, ne ne tekeʻi atu ia, ʻo pehē, ‘Ko hai naʻa ne fakanofo koe koe pule mo e fakamaau kiate kimautolu?’
28 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
Te ke tāmateʻi au, ʻo hangē ko hoʻo tāmateʻi ʻaneafi ʻae tangata ʻIsipite?
29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Pea toki hola ʻa Mōsese ʻi he lea ko ia, pea ʻāunofo ia ʻi he fonua ko Mitiani, pea naʻe tupu ʻiate ia ʻi ʻae foha ʻe toko ua.
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.
“Pea kuo hili ʻae taʻu ʻe fāngofulu, pea hā mai kiate ia, ʻi he toafa ʻoe moʻunga ko Sainai, ha ʻāngelo ʻae ʻEiki, ʻi he ulo afi ʻi he ʻulu ʻakau.
31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, the voice of the Lord came to him,
Pea ʻi he mamata ʻa Mōsese ki ai, naʻe ofo ia ʻi heʻene hā mai: pea ʻi heʻene ʻunuʻunu atu ke vakai, naʻe ongo mai kiate ia ʻae leʻo ʻoe ʻEiki,
32 ‘I am the God of your fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled and dared not look.
[ʻO pehē], ‘Ko e ʻOtua au ʻo hoʻo ngaahi tamai, ko e ʻOtua ʻo ʻEpalahame, ko e ʻOtua ʻo ʻAisake, pea ko e ʻOtua ʻo Sēkope.’ Pea naʻe toki tetetete ʻa Mōsese, pea manavahē ke sio.
33 The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
Pea pehē ʻe he ʻEiki kiate ia, Toʻo ho topuvaʻe ʻi ho vaʻe; he ko e potu ʻoku ke tuʻu ai ko e potu māʻoniʻoni.
34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
Kuo u mamata, kuo u mamata, ki he mamahi, ʻa hoku kakai ʻi ʻIsipite, pea kuo u fanongo ki heʻenau toʻe, pea kuo u ʻalu hifo ke fakamoʻui ʻakinautolu. Pea ke haʻu, te u fekau koe ki ʻIsipite.
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.
Ko Mōsese ʻeni, ʻaia naʻa nau liʻaki, ʻo pehē, ‘Ko hai ne ne fakanofo koe koe pule mo e fakamaau?’ Ko ia ia naʻe fekau ʻe he ʻOtua ko e ʻeiki mo e huhuʻi, ʻi he nima ʻoe ʻāngelo naʻe hā mai kiate ia ʻi he ʻulu ʻakau.
36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Pea ne ʻomi ʻakinautolu mei ai, kuo hili ʻene fai ʻae ngaahi mana mo e ngāue fakaofo ʻi he fonua ko ʻIsipite, mo e Tahi Kulokula, pea mo e toafa, ʻi he taʻu ʻe fāngofulu.
37 This 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.’
Pea ko e Mōsese ko ia eni, naʻe pehē ki he fānau ʻa ʻIsileli, ‘ʻE fokotuʻu kiate kimoutolu ʻe he ʻEiki ko homou ʻOtua ha palōfita ʻi homou kāinga, ke hangē ko au; pea te mou fanongo kiate ia.’
38 This 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 revelations to give to us,
Ko ia ia naʻe ʻi he fakataha ʻi he toafa, mo e ʻāngelo ʻaia naʻe lea kiate ia ʻi he moʻunga ko Sainai, pea mo ʻetau ngaahi tamai; ʻaia naʻe maʻu ʻae ngaahi fekau moʻui ke tuku kiate kitautolu:
39 to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
“ʻAia naʻe ʻikai talangofua ki ai ʻetau ngaahi tamai, ka naʻe tekeʻi atu ia ʻiate kinautolu, pea nau foki ʻi honau loto ki ʻIsipite,
40 saying 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 do not know what has become of him.’
ʻO nau pehē kia ʻEloni, ‘Ngaohi moʻotautolu ha ngaahi ʻotua ke muʻomuʻa ʻiate kitautolu: he ko e Mōsese ni, ʻaia naʻe ʻomi ʻakitautolu mei he fonua ko ʻIsipite, ʻoku ʻikai te tau ʻilo pe ʻoku ʻi fē ia.’
41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Pea naʻa nau ngaohi ʻae ʻuhikiʻi pulu ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ko ia, pea feilaulau ki he tamapua, ʻo fiefia ʻi he ngāue ʻa honau nima.
42 But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, 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?
Pea naʻe tafoki ʻae ʻOtua, ʻo fakatukutukuʻi ʻakinautolu, ke nau lotu ki he ngaahi meʻa ʻoe langi; ʻo hangē ko ia kuo tohi ʻi he tohi ʻoe kau palōfita, ‘ʻAe fale ʻo ʻIsileli, he kuo mou tauhi ʻaki au ʻae manu tāmateʻi, mo e feilaulau, ʻi he taʻu ʻe fāngofulu ʻi he toafa?
43 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship, so I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
ʻIo, pea mou toʻo hake ʻae fale fehikitaki ʻo Moloke, mo e fetuʻu ʻo homou ʻotua ko Lemafani, ʻae ngaahi fakatātā naʻa mou ngaohi ke mou lotu ki ai: pea te u fetuku ʻakimoutolu kituʻa Papilone.’
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;
“Naʻe ʻi heʻetau ngaahi tamai ʻae fale fehikitaki ʻoe fakamoʻoni ʻi he toafa, ʻo hangē ko e tuʻutuʻuni ʻo ia naʻe folofola kia Mōsese, ke ne ngaohi ia ʻo fakatatau ki he fakatātā kuo ne mamata ki ai.
45 which 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,
ʻAia naʻe ʻomi ʻe heʻetau ngaahi tamai mo Siosiua ki he fonua ʻoe kakai Senitaile, ʻakinautolu naʻe kapusi ʻe he ʻOtua mei he ʻao ʻo ʻetau ngaahi tamai, ʻo aʻu ki he ngaahi ʻaho ʻo Tevita,
46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
ʻAia naʻe ʻofeina ʻi he ʻao ʻoe ʻOtua, pea ne holi ke ne ʻilo ha nofoʻanga mo e ʻOtua ʻo Sēkope.
47 But Solomon built him a house.
Ka naʻe langa ʻe Solomone ʻae fale moʻona.
48 However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
“Ka ʻoku ʻikai nofo ʻae Fungani Māʻolunga ʻi he ngaahi fale kuo ngaohi ʻaki ʻae nima; ʻo hangē ko e lea ʻae palōfita,
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?
‘ʻOku pehē ʻe he ʻEiki, Ko hoku nofoʻa ʻae langi, pea ko hoku tuʻungavaʻe ʻa māmani: ko e hā ʻae fale te mou langa moʻoku? pea ko e hā hoku mālōlōʻanga?
50 Did not my hand make all these things?’
ʻIkai naʻe ngaohi ʻe hoku nima ʻae ngaahi meʻa ni kotoa pē?’
51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
“ʻAe kau kia kekeva, pea taʻekamu ʻae loto mo e telinga, ʻoku mou tekeʻi maʻuaipē ʻae Laumālie Māʻoniʻoni: ʻo hangē ko hoʻomou ngaahi tamai.
52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Ko e palōfita fē naʻe ʻikai fakatangaʻi ʻe hoʻomou ngaahi tamai? Pea kuo nau tāmateʻi ʻakinautolu naʻe muʻaki fakahā ʻae haʻu ʻoe Toko Taha Angatonu; ʻaia kuo mou toki lavakiʻi mo tāmateʻi:
53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it!”
ʻAkimoutolu naʻe maʻu ʻae fono ʻi he ʻao ʻoe kau ʻāngelo, kae ʻikai fai ki ai.”
54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
Pea kuo nau fanongo ki he ngaahi meʻa ni, naʻe tekelili honau loto ʻi he ʻita, pea nau fakalili honau nifo kiate ia.
55 But 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,
Ka naʻe pito ia ʻi he Laumālie Māʻoniʻoni, pea sio fakamamaʻu ia ki he langi, ʻo ne mamata ki he nāunau ʻoe ʻOtua, mo Sisu ʻoku tuʻu ʻi he nima toʻomataʻu ʻoe ʻOtua,
56 and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
ʻO ne pehē, “Vakai, ʻoku ou mamata ki he langi kuo matangaki, mo e Foha ʻoe tangata ʻoku tuʻu ʻi he nima toʻomataʻu ʻoe ʻOtua.”
57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.
Pea naʻa nau toki kalanga ʻaki ʻae leʻo lahi, mo tāpuni honau telinga, ʻo feʻohofi fakataha kiate ia,
58 They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
ʻO lī ia ki he tuaʻā kolo, mo tolongaki ʻaki ʻae maka: pea naʻe tuku hifo ʻe he kau fakamoʻoni honau kofu ʻi he vaʻe ʻoe talavou, ko Saula hono hingoa.
59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
Pea naʻa nau tolongaki ʻa Setiveni, kae lotu pe ia, mo pehē, “ʻEiki Sisu, ke ke maʻu hoku laumālie.”
60 He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
Pea tuʻulutui ia, ʻo kalanga ʻaki ʻae leʻo lahi, “ʻEiki, ʻoua naʻa lau ʻae angahala ni kiate kinautolu.” Pea kuo ne leaʻaki ia, pea mohe. Pea naʻe loto lelei ʻa Saula ki heʻene mate.
