(Now seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.)

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

and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

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.’

‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says, ‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin – that is, the whole high council of the Israelites – and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.

You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all) –

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.