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Then he said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves, and find out what is the best for you to do about these men.

For before these days, rose up Theu''das, boasting himself to be a great man; and about four hundred men followed him: he was slain; and those who followed him were scattered and nothing came of them.

After him rose up Judas, the Gal-i-le''an, in the days when people were registering for the head tax, and he misled many people into following him. He died; and all of those who followed him were dispersed.

So now I tell you, Keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this thought and this work is of men, it will fail and pass away.

The apostles went out from the presence of the council rejoicing that they had been worthy to suffer abuse for the sake of his name.

For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this country and shall change the customs which Moses entrusted to you.

God spoke to him and said, Your descendants will be settlers in a foreign land where they will be enslaved and mistreated for a period of four hundred years.

And he was removed to Sy''chem and buried in the sepulchre which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Ha''mor.

During that very period Moses was born, and he was favored before God, so that for three months he was nourished in his father''s house.

And when he was cast away by his mother, Pharaoh''s daughter found him and reared him as a son for herself.

For he thought his brethren, the Is''ra-elites, would understand that God would grant them deliverance by his hand, but they understood not.

Then the LORD said to him, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the ground on which you stand is holy.

It was he who brought them out after he had performed miracles, wonders, and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel, The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet, like me, from among your brethren; give heed to him.

They said to Aar''on, Make us gods to go before us, for this very Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

And they made a calf for themselves in those days and offered sacrifices to idols and were pleased with the work of their hands.

And this very tabernacle, our fathers, together with Joshua, brought into the land which God took away from the peoples whom he drove out before them and gave it to them for an inheritance, and it was handed down until the days of David:

Who found favor before God and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

Yet the Most High did not dwell in temples made with hands for, as the prophet had said,

As for Saul, he continued to persecute the church of God, entering into houses and dragging out men and women and delivering them to prison,