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Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;
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which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;
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who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
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but Solomon built him a house.
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But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands; as says the prophet,
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The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where [is the] place of my rest?
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has not my hand made all these things?
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O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.
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Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!
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who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].
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And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.