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³⁴Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons. ³⁵But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.

²⁷And rising up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, powerful under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, had arrived in Jerusalem to worship. ²⁸And while returning, he was sitting upon his chariot and reading from the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Draw near and join yourself to this chariot.” ³⁰And Philip, hurrying, heard him reading from the prophet Isaiah, and he said, “Do you think that you understand what you are reading?” ³¹And he said, “But how can I, unless someone will have revealed it to me?” And he asked Philip to climb up and sit with him.

¹And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife, an Ethiopian,

⁷Sons of Israel, are you not like the sons of the Ethiopians to me, says the Lord? Did I not cause Israel to rise up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene? ⁸Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinning kingdom, and I will wipe it from the face of the earth. Though truly, when destroying, I will not wipe away the house of Jacob, says the Lord.

⁶And I will cast abominations over you, and I will afflict you with abuse, and I will make an example of you. ⁷And this shall be: everyone who sees you, will recoil from you, and he will say: “Nineveh has been devastated.” Who will shake his head over you? Where might I seek consolation for you? ⁸Are you better than the populous Alexandria, which dwells along the rivers? Waters encircle it: the sea, with its riches. The waters are its walls. ⁹Ethiopia and Egypt were its strength, and there is no limit. Africa and Northern Africa have been your helpers. ¹⁰Nevertheless, she has been led away with the transmigration into captivity. Her little ones have been dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they have cast lots over her celebrities, and all her elite have been fastened together in shackles.

³²Ambassadors will come out of Egypt. Ethiopia will offer in advance her hands to God.

⁴³And he will rule over the treasure chests of gold, and silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and likewise he will pass through Libya and Ethiopia.

¹Then, too, the queen of Sheba, having heard of the fame of Solomon in the name of the Lord, arrived to test him with enigmas. ²And entering into Jerusalem with a great retinue, and with riches, and with camels carrying aromatics, and with an exceedingly great quantity of gold and precious stones, she went to king Solomon. And she spoke to him all that she held in her heart. ³And Solomon taught her, in all the words that she had proposed to him. There was not any word which was able to be hidden from the king, or which he did not answer for her. ⁴Then, when the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, ⁵and the food of his table, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the rows of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts that he was offering in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her. ⁶And she said to the king: “The word is true, which I have heard in my own land,

¹¹The name of one is the Phison; it is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born; ¹²and the gold of that land is the finest. In that place is found bdellium and the onyx stone. ¹³And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that which runs through all the land of Ethiopia.

⁶And the Sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush were Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dadan. ⁸And then Cush conceived Nimrod; he began to be powerful on the earth. ⁹And he was an able hunter before the Lord. From this, a proverb came forth: ‘Just like Nimrod, an able hunter before the Lord.’ ¹⁰And so, the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Chalanne, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹From that land, Assur came forth, and he built Nineveh, and the streets of the city, and Calah,

⁹Mount the horses, and exult upon chariots, and let the strong ones advance: the Ethiopians, and the Libyans, who hold the heavy shield, and the Lydians, who grasp and shoot arrows.