:TEXT: "abstain from the pollutions of idols and [from] fornication and [from] what is strangled and [from] blood." : p74 S A B C E P Psi 33 81 614 1241 2495 Byz two lat vg syr cop(north) : KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: B, C, A, A (against notes, in order)NOTES: "abstain from the pollutions of idols and [from] what is strangled and [from] blood." : p45: NEBnNOTES: "abstain from the pollutions of idols and [from] fornication and [from] blood." : one lat : RSVn NEBn NOTES: "abstain from the pollutions of idols and [from] fornication and [from] blood; and what they do not wish to be done to themselves do not do to others." : D (both Greek and Latin) : NEBn NOTES: "abstain from the pollutions of idols and [from] fornication and [from] what is strangled and [from] blood; and whatever they do not wish to be done to themselves not to do to others." : 945 1739 one lat cop(south) : NEBn : The text reading is adequately supported by early manuscripts of several kinds of ancient text. The omission of "and fornication" may have been due to a mistake of the eye, when copyists' eyes jumped from "and" to "and." On the other hand, it may have been due to an attempt by copyists to make all of the laws ceremonial. While it might be possible that "and things strangled" was accidently omitted due to a mistake of the eye, the fact that the same words are omitted in verse 29 and the negative golden rule added seem to indicate that this was an attempt to make all the laws moral ones (taking "blood" as "blood-shedding" and adding the negative golden rule). See verse Acts 15:29.