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18 known from the past age. 19 Therefore I judge that we not be troubling the ones from the Gentiles turning to God, 20 but that we write to them that they should be abstaining from the contaminated[a] things of idols, and sexual-immorality, and the strangled[b] thing, and blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:20 Or, polluted, defiled. That is, the foods (v 29) contaminated by their association with idol-worship.
  2. Acts 15:20 That is, meat from strangled animals, because the blood remained in it, violating a command that goes back to Noah’s time, Gen 9:4.

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