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And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.

And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,

But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.

Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,

Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.

And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.

And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.

And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.

To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.

But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism.

Now when the Apostles at Jerusalem had news that the people of Samaria had taken the word of God into their hearts, they sent to them Peter and John;