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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,
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who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down unto them; and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.
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Then the chief captain came near, and took him and commanded that he be bound with two chains, and demanded who he was and what he had done.