³ Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he ^(A)took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

²³ Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men ^(A)who are under a vow; ²⁴ take these men and ^(B)purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, ^(C)so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law. ²⁵ But as for the Gentiles who have believed, ^(D)we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled,^[a] and from sexual immorality.” ²⁶ Then Paul took the men, and the next day ^(E)he purified himself along with them and ^(F)went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and ^(G)the offering presented for each one of them.