19. Therefore my judgement is that we don’t trouble those from amongst the Gentiles who turn to God,
20. but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
21. For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who proclaim him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
22. Then it seemed good to the emissaries and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judah called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men amongst the brothers.
23. They wrote these things by their hand:“The emissaries, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
24. Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the Torah,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
25. it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26. men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
27. We have sent therefore Judah and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
28. For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
29. that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”