wherefore, brethren, chuse out of your number seven persons of good reputation, full of the holy spirit and wisdom, who may have the management of this affair:

after that he distributed to them by lot the territorys of seven nations, which he destroyed in Canaan.

these practitioners were seven in number, the sons of Sceva a Jew, one of the chief priests.

after the feast of unleaven'd bread we sail'd from Philippi, and in five days we join'd them at Troas, where we stay'd seven.

we staid seven days with the disciples we met there: who told Paul from the holy spirit, that he should not go to Jerusalem.

he was one of the seven deacons, and had four daughters all virgins, prophetesses.

The seven days being almost expir'd, the Asiatic Jews seeing him in the temple, rais'd a tumult, and fell upon him,

where finding some brethren, they desir'd us to stay with them seven days, after which we set out for Rome: