6. And the emissaries and elders came together to look into this matter.
7. And when there had been much dispute, Kĕpha rose up and said to them, “Men, brothers, you know that a good while ago Elohim chose among us, that by my mouth the gentiles should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
8. “And Elohim, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Set-apart Spirit, as also to us,
9. and made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by belief.
10. “Now then, why do you try Elohim by putting a yoke on the neck of the taught ones which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11. “But through the favour of the Master יהושע Messiah we trust to be saved, in the same way as they.”
12. And all the crowd was silent and were listening to Barnaḇah and Sha’ul declaring how many miracles and wonders Elohim did among the gentiles, through them.
13. And after they were silent, Ya‛aqoḇ answered, saying, “Men, brothers, listen to me:
14. “Shim‛on has declared how Elohim first visited the gentiles to take out of them a people for His Name.
15. “And the words of the prophets agree with this, as it has been written:
16. ‘After this I shall return and rebuild the Booth of Dawiḏ which has fallen down. And I shall rebuild its ruins, and I shall set it up,
17. so that the remnant of mankind shall seek יהוה, even all the gentiles on whom My Name has been called, says יהוה who is doing all this,’
18. who has made this known from of old.
19. “Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the gentiles who are turning to Elohim,
20. but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
21. “For from ancient generations Mosheh has, in every city, those proclaiming him – being read in the congregations every Sabbath.”
22. Then it seemed good to the emissaries and elders, with all the assembly, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Sha’ul and Barnaḇah: Yehuḏah being called Barsabba, and Sila, leading men among the brothers,
23. having written by their hand this: The emissaries and the elders and the brothers, To the brothers who are of the gentiles in Antioch, and Syria, and Kilikia: Greetings.
24. Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your lives, to whom we gave no command –