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⁸But you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit, passing over you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.”

⁹But certain ones, from the synagogue of the so-called Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those who were from Cilicia and Asia rose up and were disputing with Stephen.

¹Now there were, in the Church at Antioch, prophets and teachers, among whom were Barnabas, and Simon, who was called the Black, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

⁵But the Jews, being jealous, and joining with certain evildoers among the common men, caused a disturbance, and they stirred up the city. And taking up a position near the house of Jason, they sought to lead them out to the people.

³⁰And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance.

²³If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.

¹¹where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, servant nor free. Instead, Christ is everything, in everyone.

⁹And having reached his consummation, he was made, for all who are obedient to him, the cause of eternal salvation,

⁵Thus, even Christ did not glorify himself, so as to become High Priest, but instead, it was God who said to him: “You are my Son. Today I have begotten you.”

¹²Whoever strikes a man, intending to murder, shall be put to death. ¹³But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands, then I will appoint for you a place to which he must flee. ¹⁴If someone murders his neighbor with deliberation, by lying in wait, you shall tear him away from my altar, so that he may die. ¹⁵Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death. ¹⁶Whoever will have stolen a man and sold him, having been convicted of the crime, shall be put to death. ¹⁷Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.

¹“So then, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all of his commandments, which I instruct to you this day, the Lord your God will cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which exist upon the earth. ²And all these blessings shall come to you and take hold of you, but only if you listen to his precepts. ³Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field. ⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep. ⁵Blessed shall be your barns, and blessed your storehouses. ⁶Blessed shall you be entering and departing.

⁴⁹The Lord will lead over you a nation from far away, even from the furthest parts of the earth, like an eagle flying with great force, whose language you are not able to understand:

⁵And if the servant will say, ‘I love my lord, and my wife and children, I will not depart freely,’