Acts 12:9

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

“Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.

I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”

Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Yahweh called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,

When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.

While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.

You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.

He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.

She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

“ ‘ “I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives among them;

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate,

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.