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And when they heard this, they all together lifted up their voice to God and said, O LORD, you are the God who has made heaven and earth and the seas and all that in them is:

And when they had petitioned and made their supplications, the place in which they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God boldly.

Was it not your own before you sold it? And after it was sold, had you not the sole authority over its price? What made you think to do this thing? You have not only lied to men but to God.

Then Simon Peter with the rest of the apostles answered and said to them, We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus whom you murdered when you crucified him on the cross.

This very one God has appointed a Prince and a Saviour, and has lifted him up by his right hand so that he may grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

And we are the witnesses of these words; so is also the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who believe in him.

But if it be of God, you cannot suppress it, lest perchance you find yourself standing in opposition to God.

So the twelve apostles called the whole multitude of the converts and said to them, It is not good that we should leave the word of God and serve food. *

And the word of God spread; and the number of the converts in Jerusalem increased greatly; and many people of Jewish faith became converts.

Then they sent men and instructed them to say, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.

He said, Men, brethren and our fathers, harken: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was still in Mes-opo- ta''mi-a before he came to dwell in Ha''ran.

Then Abraham left the land of the Chalde''ans and he came and settled in Ha''ran and from thence, after his father''s death, God removed him into this land in which you now live.

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.

But the people to whom they will be enslaved I will condemn, said God, and after that, they shall go out and serve me in this land.

God gave Ab''raham the covenant of circumcision; and then Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat our twelve patriarchs.

And our forefathers were jealous of Joseph; so they sold him into Egypt; but God was with him.

But when the time of the promise was at hand, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people had already increased and become strong in Egypt,

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.

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