The Elders’ Counsel

21But they have been informed about you that you are teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

22What then is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

23Therefore do what we tell you: we have four men who are under a vow of their own.

24Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to the things they have been told about you, but that you yourself also are living in observance of the law.

25But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we sent word, having decided that they should keep themselves from what is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.