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# Behold
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The word "behold" alerts us to a new person in the story. Your language may have a way of doing this.
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# eunuch
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The emphasis of "eunuch" here is about the Ethiopian's being a high government official, and also his physical state of being castrated.
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# Candace
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This was a title for the queens of Ethiopia. It is similar to the way the word Pharaoh was used for the kings of Egypt.
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# He had come to Jerusalem to worship
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"He had come to worship God at the temple in Jerusalem"
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