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whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.
"Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business;
Now Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Then Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you have in view, that you have done this thing?"
So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they bore children;
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.
Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, "Lord, will You slay a righteous nation also?
And Abimelech said, "See, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."
for the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,
And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife.
"But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Then Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."
So Abimelech rose early in the morning, called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were very much afraid.
"Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this."