Acts 15:20

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

In Context

19wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

21for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him — in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'

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Cross References

Genesis 35:2And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

Exodus 20:23ye do not make with Me gods of silver, even gods of gold ye do not make to yourselves.

Leviticus 3:17'A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'

Leviticus 17:10'And any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who eateth any blood, I have even set My face against the person who is eating the blood, and have cut him off from the midst of his people;

Deuteronomy 12:16'Only, the blood ye do not eat — on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

Deuteronomy 14:21'Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who [is] within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for a holy people thou [art] to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Matthew Henry on Acts 15:7-22

The Council at Jerusalem. 6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by… Read the whole commentary →

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