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Acts 16:15-17
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15 And after she was baptized, and her household, she urged us,[a] saying, “If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come to my house and[b] stay.” And she prevailed upon us.

Paul and Silas Imprisoned

16 And it happened that as[c] we were going to the place of prayer, a certain female slave who had a spirit of divination[d] met us, who was bringing a large profit to her owners by[e] fortune-telling. 17 She followed Paul and us and[f] was crying out, saying, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 16:15 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Acts 16:15 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“come”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Acts 16:16 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“were going”)
  4. Acts 16:16 Literally “a spirit of Python”; Python was the name of the serpent or dragon that guarded the Delphic oracle at the foot of Mt. Parnassus and the word eventually came to be used for a spirit of divination
  5. Acts 16:16 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the infinitive (“fortune-telling”) which is understood as means
  6. Acts 16:17 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“followed”) has been translated as a finite verb
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