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 \v 1 Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are the things that these people are saying about you true?"
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 \v 2 Stephen replied, "Fellow Jews and respected leaders, please listen to me! The glorious God whom we worship appeared to our ancestor Abraham while he was still living in the region of Mesopotamia, before he moved to the city of Haran.
-\v 3 God said to him, 'Leave this land where you and your relatives are living, and go into the land which I will direct you to.'
+\v 3 God said to him, 'Leave this land where you and your relatives are living, and go into the land to which I will direct you.'
 
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 \v 6 Later God told Abraham, 'Your descendants will go and live in a foreign country. They will live there for four hundred years, and during that time their leaders will mistreat your descendants and force them to work as slaves.
-\v 7 'But I will punish the nation who make them work as slaves. After that, your descendants will leave that land, and they will come and worship me in this land.'
-\v 8 Then God commanded that every male in Abraham's household and all of his male descendants should be circumcised to show that they all belonged to God. Later Abraham's son, Isaac, was born, and on the eighth day of Isaac's life, Abraham circumcised him. Later Isaac's son, Jacob, was born. Jacob was the father of the twelve men whom we Jews call the patriarchs, our forefathers.
+\v 7 But I will punish the people who make them work as slaves. After that, your descendants will leave that land, and they will come and worship me in this land.'
+\v 8 Then God commanded that every male in Abraham's household and all of his male descendants should be circumcised to show that they all belonged to God. Later, Abraham's son Isaac was born, and on the eighth day of Isaac's life, Abraham circumcised him. Later Isaac's son, Jacob, was born. Jacob was the father of the twelve men whom we Jews call the patriarchs, our forefathers.
 
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-\v 9 "You know that Jacob's older sons became jealous because their father favored their younger brother Joseph. So they sold him to merchants, who took him to Egypt, where he became a slave. But God helped Joseph;
-\v 10 He protected him whenever people caused him to suffer. He enabled Joseph to be wise, and he caused Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to think well of Joseph. So Pharaoh appointed him to rule over Egypt and to look after all of Pharaoh's property.
+\v 9 "You know that Jacob's older sons became jealous because their father favored their younger brother Joseph. So they sold him to merchants who took him to Egypt, where he became a slave. But God helped Joseph.
+\v 10 He protected him whenever people caused him to suffer. He enabled Joseph to be wise, and he caused Pharaoh king of Egypt to think well of Joseph. So Pharaoh appointed him to rule over Egypt and to look after all of Pharaoh's property.
 
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 \v 22 Moses was taught all the learning that the people in Egypt knew, and when he grew up, he spoke and did things powerfully.
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-\v 23 "One day when Moses was about forty years old, he decided that he would go and visit his relatives, the children of Israel.
+\v 23 "One day, when Moses was about forty years old, he decided that he would go and visit his relatives, the children of Israel.
 \v 24 He saw an Egyptian mistreating one of the Israelites, and he went and helped the Israelite, and he took revenge on the Egyptian and killed him. 
 \v 25 Moses thought his own people would understand that God had sent him to free them from being slaves. But they did not understand.
 
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-\v 26 The next day, Moses saw two Israelite men fighting each other. He tried to make them stop fighting by saying to them, 'Men, you brothers! Why are you hurting each other?'
+\v 26 The next day, Moses saw two Israelite men fighting each other. He tried to make them stop fighting by saying to them, 'Men, you are brothers! Why are you hurting each other?'
 \v 27 But the man who was injuring the other man pushed Moses away and said to him, 'No one appointed you ruler and judge over us!
 \v 28 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
 
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 \v 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed, because the bush was not burning up. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say to him out of the burning bush,
-\v 32 'I am the God whom your ancestors worshiped. I am the God that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob worship.' Moses was so afraid that he began to shake. He was afraid to look at the bush any longer.
+\v 32 'I am the God whom your ancestors worshiped. I am the God that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worship.' Moses was so afraid that he began to shake. He was afraid to look at the bush any longer.
 
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-\v 33 Then the Lord God said to him, 'Take your sandals off to show that you honor me. Because I am here, the place where you are standing is especially mine.
+\v 33 Then the Lord God said to him, 'Take off your sandals to show that you honor me. Because I am here, the place where you are standing is especially mine.
 \v 34 I have certainly seen how the people of Egypt are continually causing my people to suffer. I have heard my people when they groan because of it. So I have come down to rescue them from Egypt. Now get ready, because I am going to send you back to Egypt.'
 
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 \v 35 "This Moses is the one they rejected, saying, 'No one appointed you ruler and judge!' Moses is the one whom God himself sent to rule them and to free them from being slaves. He is the one whom an angel in the bush commanded to do that.
-\v 36 Moses is the one who led our ancestors out from Egypt. He did many kinds of miracles in Egypt in order to show that God was with him, at the Sea of Reeds, and during the forty years in the wilderness.
+\v 36 Moses is the one who led our ancestors out from Egypt. He did many kinds of miracles in Egypt, at the Sea of Reeds, and during the forty years in the wilderness, in order to show that God was with him.
 \v 37 This Moses is the one who said to the Israelites, 'God will cause another man from among your own people to be a prophet like me for you.'
 
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-\v 38 It was this man Moses who brought our people together in the wilderness; he was with the angel who had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. It is Moses to whom God had the angel on Mount Sinai give him our laws, and he was the one who told our ancestors what the angel had said. He was the one who received from God words that tell us how to live eternally and passed them on to us.
+\v 38 It was this man Moses who brought our people together in the wilderness; he was with the angel who had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. It is Moses to whom God had the angel on Mount Sinai give our laws, and he was the one who told our ancestors what the angel had said. He was the one who received from God words that tell us how to live eternally, and he passed them on to us.
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 \v 39 "However, our ancestors did not want to obey Moses. Instead, they rejected him as their leader and wanted to return to Egypt.
 \v 40 So they told his older brother Aaron, 'Make idols for us who will be our gods to lead us. As for that fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!'
 
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 \v 41 So they made an image that looked like a calf. Then they offered sacrifices to honor that idol, and they sang and danced because of what they themselves had made.
-\v 42 So God stopped correcting them. He abandoned them to worship the sun, moon and stars in the sky. This agrees with the words that one of the prophets wrote:
+\v 42 So God stopped correcting them. He abandoned them to worship the sun, moon, and stars in the sky. This agrees with the words that one of the prophets wrote:
 \q 'God said, "You Israelite people, when you repeatedly killed animals and offered them as sacrifices during those forty years that you were in the wilderness, were you offering them to me?
 
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 \v 44 "While our ancestors were in the desert, they worshiped God at the sacred tent that showed that he was there with them. They had made the tent exactly like God had commanded Moses to make it. It was exactly like the model that Moses had seen when he was up on the mountain.
-\v 45 Later on, other ancestors of ours carried that tent with them when Joshua led them into this land. That was during the time that they took this land for themselves, when God forced the people who previously lived here to leave. So they were able go out and possess this land. The tent remained in this land and was still here when King David ruled.
+\v 45 Later on, other ancestors of ours carried that tent with them when Joshua led them into this land. That was during the time that they took this land for themselves, when God forced the people who previously lived here to leave. So they were able to go out and possess this land. The tent remained in this land and was still here when King David ruled.
 \v 46 David pleased God, and he asked God to let him build a house for the God of Jacob.
 
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 \v 5 One of those believers, whose name was Philip, went down from Jerusalem to a city in the district of Samaria. There he was telling the people that Jesus is the Christ.
 
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-\v 6 Many people there heard Philip speak and saw the miraculous things that he was doing. So they all paid close attention to his words.
+\v 6 Many people there heard Philip speak and saw the miraculous things he was doing. So they all paid close attention to his words.
 \v 7 For example, Philip commanded evil spirits to come out of many people, and they came out screaming. Also, many people who were paralyzed and many others who were lame were healed.
 \v 8 So, because of those miracles that had been done, many people in that city greatly rejoiced.
 
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 \v 11 Many people continued to listen to him carefully. For a long time he had astonished them by practicing sorcery.
 
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-\v 12 But then they believed Philip's message about the good news about when God would show himself as king and about Jesus Christ. The men and the women who believed in Jesus were baptized.
+\v 12 But then they believed Philip's message of good news about when God would show himself as king and about Jesus Christ. The men and the women who believed in Jesus were baptized.
 \v 13 Simon himself believed Philip's message and was baptized. He began to constantly accompany Philip, and he was continually amazed by the great miracles he saw Philip doing, things that showed Philip was speaking the truth.
 
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 \v 26 One day an angel from the Lord commanded Philip, "Get ready and go south along the road that extends from Jerusalem to the city of Gaza." That was a road in a desert area.
-\v 27 So Philip got ready and went along that road. On the road he met a man from the land of Ethiopia. He was an important official who took care of all the funds for the Candace, the queen of Ethiopia. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship God.
+\v 27 So Philip got ready and went along that road. On the road he met a man from the land of Ethiopia. He was an important official who took care of all the funds for Candace, the queen of Ethiopia. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship God.
 \v 28 After that, while he was traveling home and was sitting in his chariot, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
 
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 \v 34 The official asked Philip concerning these words that he was reading, "Tell me, who was the prophet writing about? Was he writing about himself or about someone else?"
-\v 35 So Philip replied to him; he began with that scripture passage, and he told him the good message about Jesus.
+\v 35 So Philip replied to him; he began with that scripture passage and he told him the good message about Jesus.
 
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 \v 13 Ananias answered, "But Lord, many people have told me about this man! He has done many evil things to the people in Jerusalem who believe in you!
 \v 14 The chief priests have given him power to come here to Damascus in order to arrest all those who believe in you!"
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-\v 15 But the Lord Jesus told Ananias, "Go to Saul! Do what I say, because I have chosen him to serve me in order that he might speak about me both to Gentiles people and to kings and to the children of Israel.
+\v 15 But the Lord Jesus told Ananias, "Go to Saul! Do what I say, because I have chosen him to serve me in order that he might speak about me to Gentile people and to kings and to the children of Israel.
 \v 16 I myself will tell him that he must often suffer in order to tell people about me."
 
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-\v 17 So Ananias went, and after he found the house where Saul was, he entered it. Then, as soon as he met Saul, he put his hands on him, and he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus himself commanded me to come to you. He is the same one who appeared to you while you were traveling along the road to Damascus. He sent me to you in order that you might see again and that you might be guided by the Holy Spirit in all you do."
+\v 17 So Ananias went, and after he found the house where Saul was, he entered it. Then, as soon as he met Saul, he put his hands on him and he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus himself commanded me to come to you. He is the same one who appeared to you while you were traveling along the road to Damascus. He sent me to you in order that you might see again and that you might be guided by the Holy Spirit in all you do."
 \v 18 Instantly, things like fish scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he was able to see again. Then he stood up and was baptized.
 \v 19 After Saul ate some food, he became strong again. Saul stayed with the other believers in Damascus for several days.
 
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 \v 23 Some time later, the Jewish leaders there plotted to kill him.
-\v 24 During each day and night those Jews were continually watching the people passing through the city gates, in order that when they saw Saul they might kill him. However, someone told Saul what they planned to do.
+\v 24 During each day and night, those Jews were continually watching the people passing through the city gates, so that when they saw Saul they might kill him. However, someone told Saul what they planned to do.
 \v 25 So some of those whom he had led to believe in Jesus took him one night to the high stone wall that surrounded the city. They used ropes to lower him in a large basket through an opening in the wall. In this way he escaped from Damascus.
 
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-\v 31 So the groups of believers throughout the entire regions of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria lived peacefully because no one was persecuting them anymore. The Holy Spirit was strengthening them and encouraging them. They were continuing to honor the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit was enabling many other people to become believers.
+\v 31 So the groups of believers throughout the regions of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria lived peacefully because no one was persecuting them anymore. The Holy Spirit was strengthening them and encouraging them. They were continuing to honor the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit was enabling many other people to become believers.
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 \v 32 While Peter was traveling throughout those regions, once he went to the coastal plain to visit the believers who lived in the town of Lydda.