Acts 21:23
Good News Translation
This is what we want you to do. There are four men here who have taken a vow.

New Revised Standard Version
So do what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow.

Contemporary English Version
Please do what we ask, because four of our men have made special promises to God.

New American Bible
So do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who have a vow on them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who have a vow on them.

We have.

Acts 18:18 But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of the brethren, sailed thence into Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae. For he had a vow.

Numbers 6:2-7 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord: . . .

Context
Paul's Arrival at Jerusalem
22What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come. 23Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who have a vow on them. 24Take these and sanctify thyself with them: and bestow on them, that they may shave their heads. And all will know that the things which they have heard of these are false: but that thou thyself also walkest keeping the law.…
Cross References
Numbers 6:13
This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had determined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant,

Numbers 6:18
Then shall the hair of the consecration of the Nazarite, be shaved off before the door of the tabernacle of the covenant: and he shall take his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

Acts 18:18
But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of the brethren, sailed thence into Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae. For he had a vow.

Acts 21:22
What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

1 Corinthians 9:20
And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:

Acts 21:22
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