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13 And, after they were silent, James answered, saying, "Brethren, hear me. 14 Simeon declared how God first visited the gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name. 15 And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it has been written, 16 'After these things I will return; and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; and the ruins thereof will I build again; and I will set it up; 17 that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, even all the gentiles upon whom My name has been called,' 18 saith the Lord, Who maketh these things known from of old. 19 Wherefore, I judge that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God; 20 but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from anything strangled, and from blood; 21 for Moses, from ancient generations, has in every city those preaching him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath." Acts 15:13-21, Worrell New Testament. Public domain.
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