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Acts 1:20-24 English Standard Version (ESV)

20. “For it is written in the Book of Psalms, “‘May his camp become desolate,and let there be no one to dwell in it’;and “‘Let another take his office.’

21. So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

22. beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”

23. And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.

24. And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen

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