being possessed of land, having sold it, brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;

But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.

He led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,

And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

and having sighted Cyprus, and left it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and made the land at Tyre, for there the ship was to discharge her cargo.

And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out of our own land.

And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,

And when it was day they did not recognise the land; but they perceived a certain bay having a strand, on which they were minded, if they should be able, to run the ship ashore;

But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, casting themselves first into the sea, to get out on land;

and the rest, some on boards, some on some of the things that came from the ship; and thus it came to pass that all got safe to land.

And when we got safe to land we then knew that the island was called Melita.