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After they stopped speaking, James responded: "Brothers, listen to me!
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Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.
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And the words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:
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After these things I will return and will rebuild David's tent, which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins and will set it up again,
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so that those who are left of mankind may seek the Lord- even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things,
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which have been known from long ago.
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Therefore, in my judgment, we should not cause difficulties for those who turn to God from among the Gentiles,
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but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
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For since ancient times, Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, and he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath day."