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18 Long ago I caused people to know all these things.” ’[a]

19 James then said, ‘So this is what I have decided about this problem. Many Gentiles are now turning to God as believers. We should not make it difficult for them. 20 Instead of that, we should write a letter to tell them how to live as believers. We should say to them, “Do not eat any food which people have given to their idols. That food has become unclean. Do not have sex with anyone that you are not married to. If people have strangled an animal to kill it, do not eat its meat. Do not eat anything that still has blood in it.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:18 See Amos 9:11-12.
  2. 15:20 We can read about these rules in Leviticus 18:6-23; 17:10-12.