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

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

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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.

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

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

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The 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.

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

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

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

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But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

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

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

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“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?’

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

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Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’

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

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“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.

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

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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.

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

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I 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.’

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“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.

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

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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.’

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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 oracles to give to us,

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

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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 don’t know what has become of him.’

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

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But God turned, 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?

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You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

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“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;

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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,

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

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But Solomon built him a house.

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

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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?

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Didn’t my hand make all these things?’

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

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Which 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.

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

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

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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,

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

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

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

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

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He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

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Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

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Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

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But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

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Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

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Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

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The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

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For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

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There was great joy in that city.

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But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

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to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”

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They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

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But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

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Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

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Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

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who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

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for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

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Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

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Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

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saying, “Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

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But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

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You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

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Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

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For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

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Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

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They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

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But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

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He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

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He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

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The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

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Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

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He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

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Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

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In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

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The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”

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Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.

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As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

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He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

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When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

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But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

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But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

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and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

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He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

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He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

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But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

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The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

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Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

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He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

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Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”

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The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

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and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”

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But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.