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For Moshe from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Shabbat."
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Then it seemed good to the apostles and the Zakenim, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba: Yehudah called Bar-Sabba, and Sila, chief men among the brothers.
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They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the Zakenim, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Goyim in Antioch, Aram, and Cilicia: greetings.
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Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no mitzvah;
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it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul,
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men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
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We have sent therefore Yehudah and Sila, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
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For it seemed good to the Ruach HaKodesh, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
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that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
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So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
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When they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.