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5. Lo mfo simfumene engumdodobalisi oyingozi. Uhamba ephemba udushe phakathi kwamaJuda kulo lonke elimiweyo; futhi uyinkokheli yegqiza lamaNazarete.

6. Samfumana ezama ukunyelisa *indlu kaThixo, saza sambamba. [Sasifuna ukumgweba ngokomthetho wethu,

7. kodwa kwafika umphathi-mkhosi uLisiya wamhlutha kakubi.

8. ULisiya wayalela ukuba aze kumangalelwa kuwe.] Nawe ngokwakho ekumvavanyeni kwakho uya kuziqonda uziva ngaye ezi zinto simmangalela ngazo.”

9. NamaJuda asingqina esi simangalo ukuba siyinyaniso.

10. Irhuluneli yanqwala kuPawulos ukuba athethe, waza wathi: “Ndiyazi ukuba uneminyaka emininzi ugweba kwesi sizwe; yiyo loo nto ndivuyayo kuba ndiziphendulela phambi kwakho.

11. Nawe unokuyiqonda into yokuba azingaphezu kweshumi elinambini iintsuku ndayayo eJerusalem ndiye kunqula.

12. AmaJuda akandifumananga ndixoxa namntu *endlwini kaThixo, engandifumananga ndiphembelela dushe bantwini *ezindlwini zesikhungo, okanye naphi na apho edolophini.

13. Futhi akanabo ubungqina obuphathekayo malunga nezi zinto andityhola ngazo ngoku.

14. Le yona into ndiyayivuma: Ndikhonza uThixo wookhokho bethu ngokulandela iNdlela le athi wona ayikho mgaqweni. Ndikholwa zizo zonke izinto ezibhaliweyo encwadini *yomthetho kaMosis nasezincwadini *zabashumayeli.

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