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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying: Men, brethren, hear me.
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Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.
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And to 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 down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild. And I will set it up:
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That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.
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To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.
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For which cause, judge that they who from among the Gentiles are converted to God are not to be disquieted:
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But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.
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For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him in the synagogues, where he is read every sabbath.
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Then it pleased the apostles and ancients, with the whole church, to choose men of their own company and to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren.
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Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.