Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,
what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.
And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him? You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,
Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.
And they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”
“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.
And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
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