The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”
Now we command y’all, siblings, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that y’all keep yourselves* away from any sibling who lives a disordered life not according to the tradition they received from us.
They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who live among the ethnic groups to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk according to our customs.
Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay for their expenses to get their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to the things they have been told about you, but that you yourself walk orderly in keeping the law.
He is also the father of the circumcised, those who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of faith of our father Abraham before he was circumcised.