Luke - 9:5

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5 As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."

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Explanation and meaning of Luke 9:5.

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And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness against them.
And whoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
and as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, even the dust from your feet shake off, for a testimony against them.'
Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."
And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.
And whoever will not have received you, upon departing from that city, shake off even the dust on your feet, as a testimony against them."
If people do not welcome you, as you leave that town, shake even the dust off your feet, as a protest against them."

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And whosoever will not receive you,.... Unto their houses:
when ye go out of the city; where lodging and entertainment are refused you;
shake off the very dust from your feet, for a testimony against them; See Gill on Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11

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