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Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses trembled and dared not look at the sight.

This Moses whom they had denied, saying, Who appointed you leader and judge over us?, this very one God sent to be a leader and deliverer to them by the hand of the angel which had appeared to him in the bush.

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.

Then God turned and gave them up that they might worship the host of heaven as it is written in the book of the prophets, O Is''rael- ites, why have you offered me slain animals or sacrifices during the period of forty years in the wilderness?

Indeed you have borne the tabernacle of Mo''loch and the star of the god Rem''phan; and you have made images to worship them; therefore I will remove you beyond Bab''ylon.

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.

But Solomon built God a house.

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

And he said, Behold I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

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,

So that they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word of God.

And both the noblest and the least followed him, saying, He is the greatest power of God.

But when they believed Philip, preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

N ow when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that the Samaritan people had accepted the word of God, they sent to them Simon Peter and John,

Simon Peter said to him, Let your money perish with you because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with wealth.

You have no part nor lot in this faith because your heart is not right in the sight of God.

Repent, therefore, of this evil of yours, and beseech God that he may perhaps forgive you for the guile which is in your heart.

Then Semon answered and said, Pray God for me so that none of these things which you have spoken may come upon me.

Now when Simon Peter and John had testified and taught them the word of God, they returned to Jerusalem after they had preached in many Samaritan villages.