KJV King James Version
For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
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Acts 15:21
For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
WEB World English Bible
For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
ASV American Standard Version
For Moses from generations of old hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him—in the synagogues every sabbath being read.’
Surrounding context — Acts 15
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; [namely], Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
23 And they wrote [letters] by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no [such] commandment:
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ΜωϋσῆςG3475 · Mōusēs, MōsēsMosesγὰρG1063 · garforἐκG1537 · ekout fromγενεῶνG1074 · geneagenerationἀρχαίωνG744 · archaiosancientκατὰG2596 · kataaccording toπόλινG4172 · poliscityτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoκηρύσσονταςG2784 · kērussōto preachαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heἔχειG2192 · echōto have/beἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongταῖςG3588 · hothe/this/whoσυναγωγαῖςG4864 · sunagōgēsynagogueκατὰG2596 · kataaccording toπᾶνG3956 · pasallσάββατονG4521 · sabbatonSabbathἀναγινωσκόμενος.¶G314 · anaginōskōto read
Cross-references
Acts 13:15And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, [Ye] men [and] brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.Acts 13:27For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled [them] in condemning [him].2 Corinthians 3:14-15But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.Nehemiah 8:1-12And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.Luke 4:16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
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