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Gevurot 7:47-57 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

47. "And Sh'lomo (Solomon) built for him a Beis. [MELACHIM ALEF 6:1-38]

48. "But HaElyon does not dwell in battim made by human hands, just as the Navi (prophet) says, [MELACHIM ALEF 8:27; MELACHIM BAIS 2:6]

49. "HASHOMAYIM KISSI V'HAARETZ HADOM RAGLAI ("Heaven is my throne and earth is the footstool for my feet"). EI-ZEH BAYIT ASHER TIVNU LI ("What kind of House will you build for me?") says Hashem, V'EI ZEH MAKOM MENUCHATI ("Or where will my resting place be?")

50. "Did not my hand ASATAH (make) all these things?" [YESHAYAH 66:1,2]

51. "You AM KESHEH OREF ("stiff-necked people" SHEMOT 33:5), you who are without the "bris milah" of the lev (heart) and of the oznayim (ears), you always resist the Ruach Hakodesh; you are doing like your Avot. [Ex 32:9; 33:3,5; Lv 26:41; Dt 10:16; Jer 4:4; 9:26; Isa 63:10]

52. "Which of the Nevi'im (prophets) did your Avot not persecute? And they killed the ones having announced beforehand about the Bias HaMoshiach, the coming of the Tzaddik of whom now you became bogedim and rotzechim (murderers);

53. "You who received the Torah at the directions of malachim and were not shomer of it."

54. And hearing these things, they were infuriated in their levavot, and they were grinding their teeth at him.

55. But being full of the Ruach Hakodesh and having gazed into Shomayim, Stefanos saw the kavod (glory) of Hashem and Yehoshua standing limin Hashem.

56. And Stefanos said, "Hinei, I see Shomayim having been opened and the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) standing limin Hashem."

57. And having cried out with a kol gadol, they shut their oznayim and they rushed down with one impulse upon Stefanos.

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