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All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
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After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me.
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Simeon has reported how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
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This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
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'After these things I will return. I will again build the tent of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up:
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That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
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All his works are known to God from eternity.'
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"Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
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but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
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For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath."
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Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.