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And on the Sabbathday we wentoutside the gate to a riverside*, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we satdown and began speaking to the women who had assembled.
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A womannamedLydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purplefabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lordopened her heart to respond to the thingsspoken by Paul.
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And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
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It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girlhaving a spirit of divinationmet us, who was bringing her mastersmuchprofit by fortune-telling.
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FollowingafterPaul and us, she kept crying out, saying, "Thesemen are bond-servants of the MostHighGod, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation."