1 IRV Tetiya maha purohit pora koise,“Eitu khan hosa ase? BSB BSB: Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
2 IRV Tetiya Stephen koise,“Bhai aru baba khan, moi laga kotha hunibi: Isor laga mohima baba Abraham logote jetiya tai Mesopotamia te thakise, tai Haran te nathaka agete; BSB BSB: And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
3 IRV aru tai ke koise,‘Tumi laga mati aru ghor manu khan para ulai jabi, aru moi jun jaga tumi ke dikhabo tate jabi.’ BSB BSB: and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
4 IRV Tetiya tai Chaldea laga des chari kene Haran te thaki jaise; aru tai laga baba mora pichete, Isor hai taike eitu jaga te loi anise, jun jaga te tumi khan etiya thaki ase. BSB BSB: So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
5 IRV Kintu Tai taike eitu jaga diya nai tai laga bhori rakhibole bhi deya nai. Kintu Isor pora tai ke aru tai laga khandan ke, ekta jaga dibo koi kene kosom dise jodi tai laga bachha bhi thaka nai. BSB BSB: He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
6 IRV Kintu Isor pora tai ke eneka koise, tai laga khandan khan dusra desh te alag manu hoi kene thakibo, aru eitu jaga laga manu khan tai khan ke noukor bonai rakhibo aru charso- sal tak bisi dukh dibo. BSB BSB: God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
7 IRV ‘Aru,’ Isor koise,‘jun jati taikhan ke nokor banabo, utu jati khan ke moi bichar koribo, tetia tai khan ulai ahi kene moi ke eitu jaga te mohima koribo.’ BSB BSB: ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’
8 IRV Tetiya Isor Abraham ke sunnot laga kosom desi, tetiya Abraham Isak laga baba hoise aru ath- din te Isak ke sunnot korise; aru Isak pora Jakob laga baba hoise, aru Jakob pora baroh ta bachha paise aru eitu khandan laga baba hoise. BSB BSB: Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9 IRV Kintu Joseph laga bhai khan tai upote ke suku jolise hoise, aru taike Egypt te bikiri kori dise; kintu Isor tai logote thakise. BSB BSB: Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
10 IRV Aru Isor tai laga sob dukh pora bachai loise. Tai laga gyan pora Egypt raja Pharaoh laga mon tai jiti loise, aru raja pora tai ke Egypt aru tai laga ghor te bhal adhikar dise. BSB BSB: and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.
11 IRV Tetiya Egypt aru Canaan desh te akaal ahise, aru bisi dukh paise, aru moi khan laga baba khan khabole panai. BSB BSB: Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
12 IRV Kintu jetiya Jakob hunise Egypt te dhan ase koi kene, tai ami khan laga baba khan ke ta te pothaise. BSB BSB: When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
13 IRV Aru dusra bar Joseph nijor bhai khan ke tai kun ase utu janibole dise, aru Pharoh bhi Joseph laga ghor manu khan ke jani loise. BSB BSB: On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.
14 IRV Tetiya Joseph tai laga kokai bhai khan logote manu pothaikene Jocob aru tai logote pachatar jon loi anibole koise. BSB BSB: Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
15 IRV Tetiya Jakob Egypt te jaise, Jakob aru amikhan laga baba khan sob tate mori jaise. BSB BSB: So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.
16 IRV Aru taikhan laga mora gaw tu Shechem te loi jai kene kote Abraham pora Hamor bachha khan logote poisa di kene mati kini rakhise tate kobor dise. BSB BSB: Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
17 IRV Jetiya Isor Abraham logote kosom khai kene rakha homoi ahise- eitu kosom juntu Isor hei Abraham logote korise- Egypt te manu bisi hoi jaise. BSB BSB: As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.
18 IRV Joseph ke najana ekta raja Egypt te ulaise. BSB BSB: Then another king, who knew nothing of Joseph, arose over Egypt.
19 IRV Tai ami khan laga manu ke thokai dise, aru jiman notun jonom huwa bachha khan ase tai khan ke ulai anibole koise jate tai khan eitu khan ke jinda thakibole nidibo. BSB BSB: He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
20 IRV Eitu homoi te Moses jonom hoise; tai Isor nimite bisi sundor thakise, aru taike tin mohina tok tai baba ghor te rakhise. BSB BSB: At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
21 IRV Kintu jetiya taike bahar te rakhise, Pharaoh laga swali taike loi kene nijor bacha nisina palise. BSB BSB: When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
22 IRV Aru Moses ke Egypt laga gyan aru niyom kanun sob shikai dise, aru tai kotha aru kaam te bhi bisi takot thakise. BSB BSB: So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
23 IRV Kintu jetiya tai chalis saal hoi jaise, tai nijor Israel bhai khan ke, lok koribole mon korise. BSB BSB: When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
24 IRV Aru jetiya Israel manu ekjon ke dukh pai thaka dekhise, Moses eitu manu ke modod koribole jaise, aru eitu dekhi kene Moses pora eitu Egypt manu ke morai dise. BSB BSB: And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
25 IRV Tai bhabisele, tai laga manu khan bujhibo paribo, Isor hai taikhan ke bachai dibo nimite tai ke pothaise, kintu taikhan eitu bujhi bole para nai. BSB BSB: He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.
26 IRV Aru dusra din te dui- jan Israel manu jhagra kori thaka homoi te tai ponchise, aru ekjon- ekjon logote shanti rakhi bole koise,‘Bhai khan, kele nijor bhai kokai majote jhagara kori ase?’ BSB BSB: The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
27 IRV Kintu jun tai usor manu logot jhakara kori thakise, taike pichhete dhakai kene, koise,‘Tumi ke kun pora ami khan uporte hukum chola bole dise? BSB BSB: But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
28 IRV Juwa kali ekjon Egypt manu ke morai diya nisina, moi ke bhi morabole mon ase?’ BSB BSB: Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
29 IRV Eitu kotha huni kene Moses polai jaise, aru Median laga desh te alag desh manu hoi kene thaki jaise, aru tate tai duita chokora bachha laga baba hoi jaise. BSB BSB: At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
30 IRV Aru jetiya chalis saal par hoi jaise, Probhu laga sorgoduth Sinai Pahar laga jongol te jui nisina kori kene tai usorte ahise. BSB BSB: After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
31 IRV Jetiya Moses jui dekhise, tai eitu dikhi kene bisi asurit hoise, aru usor pora sabole jaise, tetiya Probhu laga awaz hunise. BSB BSB: When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:
32 IRV ‘Moi tumi laga baba khan laga Isor ase, Abraham, Isak aru Jakob laga Isor.’ Tetiya Moses kapi kene bhoi pora tate phale sabole paranai. BSB BSB: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
33 IRV Tetiya Probhu taike koise,‘Tumi laga bhori pora juta ulaai rakhi dibi, kelemane kuntu jaga te tumi khara ase eitu jaga Pobitro ase. BSB BSB: Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
34 IRV Moi laga manu khan Egypt te dukh kori thaka dikhise, aru taikhan kandi thaka awaj hunise, aru taikhan ke bachha bole nimite ahise; eitu karone ahibi, Moi tumi ke Egypt te pothabo.’ BSB BSB: I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
35 IRV Eitu Moses, jun ke taikhan mana- nai, aru koisile,‘Kun hei tumi ke moi khan uporte cholawta koribo dise?’ Tai ekjon thakise jun ke Isor pora cholawta aru bachai dibole nimite pothaise- aru sorgoduth hath pora Moses ke jongol te dekhai dise. BSB BSB: This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 IRV Eitu Moses Egypt pora tai khan ke ulai anise, aru sob asorit kaam khan Egypt laga mati te dikhai thakise aru Ghas laga Samundar te, aru jongol majo pora tai khan ke chalis sal tak cholai kene loi jaise. BSB BSB: He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
38 IRV Eitu tai ase, jun jongol te manu khan joma thaka te, tai tate amar khandan khan logot asele, aru utu Sinai Pahar te tai logot kotha korise, aru tai jinda kotha pai kene amikhan ke ponchai dise. BSB BSB: He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
39 IRV Eitu manu laga kotha moi khan laga baba khan mani bole mon kora nai, kintu tai ke hatai dise, aru tai khan laga mon Egypt phale hai jai jaise. BSB BSB: But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
40 IRV Aru Aaron ke koise, amikhan nimite murti khan bonai dibi jun moikhan ke loikene aghe jabo. Aru eitu Moses tu, jun heamikhan ke Egypt pora loi anise, tai ke ki hoise amikhan najane. BSB BSB: They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
41 IRV Tetiya taikhan ekta goru bachha bonaise, aru hath pora bona laga murti ke kiba ani kene boli dise, aru khusi manai thakise. BSB BSB: At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
42 IRV Kintu Isor taikhan ke chari kene taikhan ke akash aru tara khan ke puja koribole dise, jeneka bhaobadi khan laga kitab te likha ase,‘Tumi khan moi ke janwar laga boli deya nai Chalis sal jongol te thaka homoi te, tumi Israel manu khan kotha manise? BSB BSB: But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 IRV Apuni khan Molech laga tambu ke mani loi se, Aru tumikhan laga bhagwan Rephan laga tara bhi, aru murti bonai kene puja koribole loi jaise karone: Moi tumikhan ke Babylon pora bisi dur te loi rakhi dibo.’ BSB BSB: You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
44 IRV Amar baba khan logot sakhi laga tambo ase, jeneka taike dekhaise jongol te, teneka bonabole koise, aru thik teneka bonai loise. BSB BSB: Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
45 IRV Eitu ase tombu ghor jun tu amikhan baba khan pora pai kene Joshua hath pora loi iyate anise, jetiya taikhan jati khan ke adhikar kori loise, jun khan Isor he amar baba khan usor pora khedai dise, aru utu David laga homoi tak thakise, BSB BSB: And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
46 IRV jun Isor echha te paise, tai mangise Jacob laga Isor ke thakibole ekta jagah korone. BSB BSB: who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47 IRV Kintu Solomon hei Isor karone ekta ghor bonai dise. BSB BSB: But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
48 IRV Kintu, Mohan Isor tu manu pora bonai diya ghor te nathake, bhaobadi pora kuwa nisina, BSB BSB: However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 IRV ‘Sorgo tu Amar laga singhasan, aru prithibi Amar bhori rakha jaga. Probhu koise, tumi Moi karne ghor bonai dibo? Aru Amar aram kora jaga tu kote hobo? BSB BSB: ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?
50 IRV Moi he nijor haath pora eitu sob bona nai naki?’ BSB BSB: Has not My hand made all these things?’
51 IRV Tumi khan phutani aru mon aru kaan te sunnot nokora khan, tumikhan Pobitro Aatma laga hinsa kori thake, tumar baba khan kori aha, teneka apunikhan bhi kore. BSB BSB: You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
52 IRV Eneka kun bhaobadi ase jun ke tumi khan laga baba pora dukh diya nai? Ahibole thaka bhal manu ekjan laga kotha kuwa khan ke bhi morai dise, aru tumi khan manu morai diya aru manu ke thokai diya ekjon hoi jaise, BSB BSB: Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
53 IRV Tumi khan sorgoduth khan pora dia Isor laga niyom lowa khan, holibi tumar khan namane. BSB BSB: you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
54 IRV Jetiya taikhan eitu kotha hunise, sabha laga manu khan mon te bisi khong hoise, aru dath kamuri kene Stephen uporte khong uthise. BSB BSB: On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
55 IRV Kintu tai Pobitro Aatma te bhorta hoi kene, sorgote saise, aru Isor laga mohima aru Jisu to Isor laga dahina hath phale khara thaka dekhi paise. BSB BSB: But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
56 IRV Stephen koise,“Sabi, sorgo khuli thaka dekhi ase, aru Manuh laga Putro Isor laga dahina hath phale khara kori ase.” BSB BSB: “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
57 IRV Tetiya taikhan untcha awaj pora hala korise, aru kaan bond korikene sob eki logot tai usor te polai ahise. BSB BSB: At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.
58 IRV Aru taikhan taike citi bahar te loi jai kene taike pathor mari dise, aru gawahi khan taikhan laga kapur loi jawan manu ekjon naam Saul laga bhori te rakhise. BSB BSB: They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59 IRV Aru taikhan jetiya Stephen ke pathor mari thakise, tai Isor ke mati kena koise,“Probhu Jisu, moi laga Aatma loi lobi.” BSB BSB: While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
60 IRV Tetiya tai athukarikene jor awaj pora koise,“Probhu, tai khan ke eitu paap laga bichar nokoribi.” Eitu koi kene tai ghumai jaise. BSB BSB: Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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