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Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.
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And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,
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After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:
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So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,
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Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.
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For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;
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But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
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For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.
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Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:
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And they sent a letter by them, saying, The Apostles and the older brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, may joy be with you:
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Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;