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For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
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Shim`on answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken come on me."
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They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Yerushalayim, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Shomroni.
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But an angel of the Lord spoke to Pilipos, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Yerushalayim to `Aza. This is a desert."
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He arose and went. Behold, there was a man of Kush, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Kushim, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Yerushalayim to worship.
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He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Yesha`yahu.
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The Spirit said to Pilipos, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."
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Pilipos ran to him, and heard him reading Yesha`yahu the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
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He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Pilipos to come up and sit with him.
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Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth.
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In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generations? For his life is taken from the eretz."