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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, listen to me:
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Simon has related how God first visited to take out of [the] nations a people for his name.
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And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written:
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After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up,
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so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith [the] Lord, who does these things
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Wherefore *I* judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;
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but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
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For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.
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Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,
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having by their hand written [thus]: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among [the] nations at Antioch, and [in] Syria and Cilicia, greeting: