17that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’ Amos 9:11,12 (see Septuagint) —
18things known from long ago. Some manuscripts things’— / 18 the Lord’s work is known to him from long ago
19“It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
20Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
21For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
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