After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’