Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,

They have been informed about you – that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid that is on it, all the furnishings of the tent,

You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. It is a perpetual statute.

You must be sure to obey my statutes. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

“‘If you sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses –

So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments.

From that time onward it was a binding ordinance for Israel, right up to the present time.

In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

I will establish his kingdom permanently, if he remains committed to obeying my commands and regulations, as you are doing this day.’