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But when Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and placed it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand. When the natives saw the snake hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer! Though he has been saved from the sea, Justice[a] has not allowed him to live.”

However, Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no harm.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 28:4 Grk. Dike, the goddess of justice.