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And they are informed about thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, nor walk according to the customs.
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What is therefore to be done? The multitude must surely come together, for they will hear that thou art come.
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Do therefore this which we say to thee: We have four men who have taken a vow upon themselves.
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Take them and purify thyself with them, and bear their charges with them, that they may shave their heads; and all may know that those things of which they have been informed concerning thee are nothing, butthat thou thyself also walkest orderly and keepest the law.
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And as to the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication."
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Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself with them, he entered into the temple to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until an offering should be offered for every one of them.
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And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews who were from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid hands on him,
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crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teacheth all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place, and furthermore brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place."
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(For they had seen previously with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
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And all the city was moved and the people ran together, and they took Paul and dragged him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut.
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And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar,