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Then Peter and the other apostles answering said, We ought to obey God rather than man.

The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.

Him hath God exalted, a Prince and a Saviour with his right-hand, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

And we are witnesses of these things, and also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, and take heed lest ye be found even fighting against God.

Then the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples together, said, It is not right, that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

And the word of God grew, and the number of disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem greatly: and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Then they suborned men who said, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God.

The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, And said to him,

And God spake thus: That his seed should sojourn in a strange land, (and they will inslave them and treat them evil) four hundred years.

And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, will I judge, saith God. And after that, they shall come forth, and serve me in this place.

And the patriachs moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,

And when the time of the promise which God had sworn to Abraham drew near, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, Till another king arose, who had not known Joseph.

For he supposed his brethren would have understood, that God would deliver them by his hand; but they understood it not.

And Moses seeing it, wondered at the sight. But as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came to him, I am the God of thy fathers,

the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a prince and a judge, the same did God send, to be a ruler and a deliverer, by the hand of the Angel, who appeared to him in the bush.

This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, The Lord your God will raise you up, out of your brethren, a prophet like me: him shall ye hear.

And God turned and gave them up, to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered victims and sacrifices to me, for forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Yea, ye took up the shrine of Molock, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.