16 Go and (A)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, (B)“I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,

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16 “Go, assemble the elders(A) of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob(B)—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen(C) what has been done to you in Egypt.

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(A)what is man that you are (B)mindful of him,
    and (C)the son of man that you (D)care for him?

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what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?

31 And the people (A)believed; and when they heard that the Lord had (B)visited the people of Israel and that he had (C)seen their affliction, (D)they bowed their heads and worshiped.

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31 and they believed.(A) And when they heard that the Lord was concerned(B) about them and had seen their misery,(C) they bowed down and worshiped.(D)

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29 Then Moses and Aaron (A)went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.

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29 Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders(A) of the Israelites,

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24 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but (A)God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land (B)that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die.(A) But God will surely come to your aid(B) and take you up out of this land to the land(C) he promised on oath to Abraham,(D) Isaac(E) and Jacob.”(F)

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14 (A)Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them (B)a people for his name.

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14 Simon[a] has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:14 Greek Simeon, a variant of Simon; that is, Peter

Shepherd the Flock of God

So I exhort the elders among you, (A)as a fellow elder and (B)a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:

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To the Elders and the Flock

To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder(A) and a witness(B) of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed:(C)

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12 (A)Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, (B)they may see your good deeds and glorify God on (C)the day of visitation.

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12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds(A) and glorify God(B) on the day he visits us.

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It has been testified somewhere,

(A)“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,[a]

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  1. Hebrews 2:7 Some manuscripts insert and set him over the works of your hands

But there is a place where someone(A) has testified:

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    a son of man that you care for him?(B)
You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor

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  1. Hebrews 2:7 Or them for a little while

Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders

17 Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called (A)the elders of the church to come to him.

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17 From Miletus,(A) Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders(B) of the church.

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30 (A)And they did so, sending it to (B)the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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30 This they did, sending their gift to the elders(A) by Barnabas(B) and Saul.(C)

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44 (A)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (B)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (C)the time of your (D)visitation.”

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44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls.(A) They will not leave one stone on another,(B) because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming(C) to you.”

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68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,(A)
    because he has come to his people and redeemed them.(B)

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