8. God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
9. He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
10. Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11. But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Yeshua, just as they are.”
12. All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done amongst the nations through them.
13. After they were silent, Jacob answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
14. Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
15. This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
16. ‘After these things I will return.I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen.I will again build its ruins.I will set it up
17. that the rest of men may seek after the Lord;all the Gentiles who are called by my name,says the Lord, who does all these things.’
18. “All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
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.”