^25 (A)“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, ^(B)or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. ^26 (C)The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. ^(D)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.”

²⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words ^(E)I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ^28 (F)So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he ^(G)wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.^[a]

The Shining Face of Moses

²⁹ When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with ^(H)the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face ^(I)shone because he had been talking with God.^{[b] 30} Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face ^(J)shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

Barnabas and Saul Sent Off

13 Now there were in the church at Antioch ^(A)prophets and ^(B)teachers, ^(C)Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger,^[a] Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of ^(D)Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. ² While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, ^(E)the Holy Spirit said, ^(F)“Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul ^(G)for the work to which I have called them.” ³ Then after fasting and ^(H)praying they laid their hands on them and ^(I)sent them off.

Barnabas and Saul on Cyprus

⁴ So, being sent out ^(J)by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. ⁵ When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God ^(K)in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had ^(L)John to ^(M)assist them.