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And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken:
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the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it;
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and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,
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and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land.
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`And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges -- till Samuel the prophet;
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and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;
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and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the [son] of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.
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`Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus,
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John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;
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and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not [he], but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of [his] feet.
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`Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,