KJV King James Version
Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
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Acts 21:26
Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So the next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he entered the temple to give notice of the date when their purification would be complete and the offering would be made for each of them.
WEB World English Bible
Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
ASV American Standard Version
Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them went into the temple, declaring the fulfilment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Then Paul, having taken the men, on the following day, with them having purified himself, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfilment of the days of the purification, till the offering was offered for each one of them.
Surrounding context — Acts 21
23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave [their] heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but [that] thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written [and] concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from [things] offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all [men] every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
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ΤότεG5119 · totethenὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoΠαῦλοςG3972 · PaulosPaulπαραλαβὼνG3880 · paralambanōto takeτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἄνδραςG435 · anērmanτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐχομένῃG2192 · echōto have/beἡμέρᾳG2250 · hēmeradayσὺνG4862 · sunwithαὐτοῖςG846 · autosit/s/heἁγνισθεὶςG48 · hagnizōto purifyεἰσῄειG1524 · eiseimito enterεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoἱερὸνG2411 · hierostempleδιαγγέλλωνG1229 · diangellōto proclaimτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐκπλήρωσινG1604 · ekplērōsisfulfillmentτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἡμερῶνG2250 · hēmeradayτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoἁγνισμοῦ,G49 · hagnismospurificationἕωςG2193 · heōsuntilοὗG3739 · hos, hēwhichπροσηνέχθηG4374 · prospherōto bring toὑπὲρG5228 · huperabove/forἑνὸςG1520 · ehisoneἑκάστουG1538 · hekastoseachαὐτῶνG846 · autosit/s/heἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoπροσφορά.G4376 · prosphoraoffering
Cross-references
Acts 24:18Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.Acts 21:24Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave [their] heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but [that] thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.Numbers 6:13-20And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:1 Corinthians 9:20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
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