²⁰ Instead, we should write a letter to them telling them these things: Stay away from food ·that has been offered to idols (which makes it unclean) [^Lpolluted by idols], ·any kind of sexual sin [or prohibited marriages; ^Cthe Greek word could mean any sexual sin, or marriages viewed as incestuous by OT law], eating animals that have been strangled [^Cleaving the blood inside, which the OT law prohibited; Gen. 9:4], and blood [^Cconsuming blood was forbidden in the OT law; Lev. 17:10–12].