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Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.
And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, "These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city;
Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.
Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation."
But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And he came out that very hour.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
"but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,