Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.

So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.

Everyone must obey state authorities, because no authority exists without God's permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God.

These were the spirits of those who had not obeyed God when he waited patiently during the days that Noah was building his boat. The few people in the boat---eight in all---were saved by the water,