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6 The apostles and elders met to confer about this matter.
7 After there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in early days God chose among you that through my mouth the Gentiles should hear the message of good news and should believe.
8 And God, who knows all hearts, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.
9 He made no difference between us and them in cleansing their hearts by faith.
10 Now, therefore, why are you testing God by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
11 On the contrary we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus just as they are."
12 The whole assembly remained silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the Gentiles.
13 When they ceased speaking, James said, "Brethren, listen to me.
14 Symeon has told how first God graciously visited the Gentiles and took a people for his name.
15 With this the words of the prophets agree, as it is written,
16 'After this I will return and build up again the tent of David which has fallen down; yes, I will build up its ruins and erect it again,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles upon whom my name has been bestowed, says the Lord
18 who does these things foreknown from of old.'
19 Therefore I judge best not to trouble those of the Gentiles who have turned to God,
20 but to write to them to abstain from contamination with idols, and from unchastity, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses has had for generations past in every city those who preach him, for he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."