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At once she fell down at his feet and died. The young men came in and saw that she was dead, so they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Then the High Priest and all his companions, members of the local party of the Sadducees, became extremely jealous of the apostles; so they decided to take action.

The apostles obeyed, and at dawn they entered the Temple and started teaching. The High Priest and his companions called together all the Jewish elders for a full meeting of the Council; then they sent orders to the prison to have the apostles brought before them.

So the officer went off with his men and brought the apostles back. They did not use force, however, because they were afraid that the people might stone them.

"We gave you strict orders not to teach in the name of this man," he said; "but see what you have done! You have spread your teaching all over Jerusalem, and you want to make us responsible for his death!"

God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.

You remember that Theudas appeared some time ago, claiming to be somebody great, and about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, all his followers were scattered, and his movement died out.

After that, Judas the Galilean appeared during the time of the census; he drew a crowd after him, but he also was killed, and all his followers were scattered.

All those sitting in the Council fixed their eyes on Stephen and saw that his face looked like the face of an angel.

And so he left his country and went to live in Haran. After Abraham's father died, God made him move to this land where you now live.

God did not then give Abraham any part of it as his own, not even a square foot of ground, but God promised to give it to him, and that it would belong to him and to his descendants. At the time God made this promise, Abraham had no children.

Then God gave to Abraham the ceremony of circumcision as a sign of the covenant. So Abraham circumcised Isaac a week after he was born; Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons, the famous ancestors of our race.

and brought him safely through all his troubles. When Joseph appeared before the king of Egypt, God gave him a pleasing manner and wisdom, and the king made Joseph governor over the country and the royal household.

and when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons, our ancestors, on their first visit there.

On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and the king of Egypt came to know about Joseph's family.

So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.

Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.

and when he was put out of his home, the king's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

"When Moses was forty years old, he decided to find out how his fellow Israelites were being treated.

He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his help and took revenge on the Egyptian by killing him.