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13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, "Men and brethren, hearken unto me.
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When they finished, James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me.
14 Simon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out from them a people for His name.
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Simon has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles.
15 And to this agree the words of the Prophets, as it is written:
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The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16 `After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. And I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up,
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“ ‘After this I will return and rebuild David’s fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
17 that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom My name is called, saith the Lord who doeth all these things.'
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that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’ —
18 Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.
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things known from long ago.
19 Therefore my judgment is that we trouble not those from among the Gentiles who are turned to God,
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“It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
20 but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
21 For Moses from olden times hath in every city those who preach him, he being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day."
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For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
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