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and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me;
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Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,
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and to this agree the words of the prophets, as it hath been written:
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After these things I will turn back, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and will set it upright --
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that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.
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`Known from the ages to God are all His works;
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wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,
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but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
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for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him -- in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'
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Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -- Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren --
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having written through their hand thus: `The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who [are] of the nations, greeting;