Acts 23:12-14

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

The Next Day, Over 40 Jews Swear an Oath To Kill Paul, And Hatch a Plot

¹² And having become day, the Jews, having held a gathering, bound themselves under-a-curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until which time they killed Paul. ¹³ Now there were more than forty having made^[a] this sworn-pact— ¹⁴ who, having gone to the chief priests and the elders, said, “With a curse^[b], we bound ourselves under-a-curse to eat nothing until which time we kill Paul.