Abram answered, "Very well, she is your slave and under your control; do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so cruelly that she ran away.

He said to Abraham, "Here is my whole land; live anywhere you like."

These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem,

"Now you should choose some man with wisdom and insight and put him in charge of the country.

even though he always went ahead of you to find a place for you to camp. To show you the way, he went in front of you in a pillar of fire by night and in a pillar of cloud by day.

They took note of this and were pleased. Indeed, everything the king did pleased the people.

The king and the people were pleased with their plan,

The king and his officials liked this idea, and the king did what Memucan suggested.

Then take the young woman you like best and make her queen in Vashti's place." The king thought this was good advice, so he followed it.

So his wife and all his friends suggested, "Why don't you have a gallows built, seventy-five feet tall? Tomorrow morning you can ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it, and then you can go to the banquet happy." Haman thought this was a good idea, so he had the gallows built.

The whole group was pleased with the apostles' proposal, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a Gentile from Antioch who had earlier been converted to Judaism.