Acts 21
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Acts 21:23-26

23Therefore, do 1as we tell you: we have four men who 2have a 3vow upon themselves; 24take them along and 4purify yourself together with them, and 5pay their expenses so that they may 6shave their 7heads; and then everyone will know that there is nothing to what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also conform, keeping the Law. 25But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we sent a letter, 8having decided that they should abstain from 9meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and what is 10strangled, and from sexual immorality.” 26Then Paul 11took along the men, and the next day, after 12purifying himself together with them, he 13went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.

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Notes

  1. 1. Acts 21:23 Lit this which we ↩
  2. 2. Acts 21:23 Num 6:13-21; Acts 18:18 ↩
  3. 3. Acts 21:23 I.e., a sacred duty to fulfill ↩
  4. 4. Acts 21:24 John 11:55; Acts 21:26; 24:18 ↩
  5. 5. Acts 21:24 Lit spend on them ↩
  6. 6. Acts 21:24 Acts 18:18 ↩
  7. 7. Acts 21:24 Lit head (a requirement of the vow) ↩
  8. 8. Acts 21:25 Acts 15:19f, 29 ↩
  9. 9. Acts 21:25 Lit the thing ↩
  10. 10. Acts 21:25 I.e., to retain the blood ↩
  11. 11. Acts 21:26 Or took along the men the next day, and after purifying himself ↩
  12. 12. Acts 21:26 John 11:55; Acts 21:24; 24:18 ↩
  13. 13. Acts 21:26 Num 6:13; Acts 24:18 ↩

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