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Acts 5:9-22 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

9. So Kĕpha said to her, “Why have you agreed to try the Spirit of יהוה? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out.”

10. And immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, they buried her beside her husband.

11. And great fear came upon all the assembly and upon all who heard of this.

12. And through the hands of the emissaries many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one mind in Shelomoh’s Porch.

13. But of the rest no one had the courage to join them, however, the people made much of them.

14. And more believers were added to the Master, large numbers of both men and women,

15. so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Kĕpha, passing by, might fall on some of them.

16. A large number also gathered from the surrounding cities to Yerushalayim, bringing sick ones and those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

17. But the high priest rose up, and all those with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, and they were filled with jealousy,

18. and seized the emissaries and put them in the public jail.

19. But a messenger of יהוה opened the prison doors at night and brought them out, and said,

20. “Go and stand in the Set-apart Place and speak to the people all the words of this life.”

21. Now when they heard, they went into the Set-apart Place early in the morning, and were teaching. But the high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and sent to the prison for them to be brought.

22. But having come, the officers did not find them in the prison, and they went back and reported it,

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