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So in the present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these people, but to leave them alone. For if this idea or this movement has a human origin, it will collapse.

So the Twelve called a general meeting of the talmidim and said, "It isn't appropriate that we should neglect the Word of God in order to serve tables.

So the word of God continued to spread. The number of talmidim in Yerushalayim increased rapidly, and a large crowd of cohanim were becoming obedient to the faith.

So they secretly persuaded some men to allege, "We heard him speak blasphemously against Moshe and against God."

They stirred up the people, as well as the elders and the Torah-teachers; so they came and arrested him and led him before the Sanhedrin.

So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.

And he gave him b'rit-milah. So he became the father of Yitz'chak and did his b'rit-milah on the eighth day, and Yitz'chak became the father of Ya‘akov, and Ya‘akov became the father of the Twelve Patriarchs.

With cruel cunning this man forced our fathers to put their newborn babies outside their homes, so that they would not survive.

So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars — as has been written in the book of the prophets, ‘People of Isra'el, it was not to me that you offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!

No, you carried the tent of Molekh and the star of your god Reifan, the idols you made so that you could worship them. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Bavel .'

Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y'hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them. "So it was until the days of David.

At this, they began yelling at the top of their voices, so that they wouldn't have to hear him; and with one accord, they rushed at him,

so that there was great joy in that city.

"Give this power to me, too," he said, "so that whoever I place my hands on will receive the Ruach HaKodesh."

So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps you will yet be forgiven for holding such a thought in your heart.

Shim‘on answered, "Pray to the Lord for me, so that none of the things you have spoken about will happen to me."

So he got up and went. On his way, he caught sight of an Ethiopian, a eunuch who was minister in charge of all the treasure of the Kandake, or queen, of Ethiopia. He had been to Yerushalayim to worship;

They helped Sha'ul get up off the ground; but when he opened his eyes, he could see nothing. So, leading him by the hand, they brought him into Dammesek.

So Hananyah left and went into the house. Placing his hands on him, he said, "Brother Sha'ul, the Lord — Yeshua, the one who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here — has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh."