It was the king's third council and primarily directed, as was the Sixteenth, against the Jews, for whom Egica seems to have had a profound distrust and dislike.
The council therefore decreed in its eighth canon that all Jews, except those in Narbonensis, were to be deprived of their property, which was to be given to Christian slaves, and enslaved themselves.
Their slavekeepers were chosen by the king and were to be contractually obligated to never allow the practice of the Jewish religion again.
The council tried to protect the life of Egica's queen and children after his death, knowing the harm which could befall the royal family during a succession, and the bishops ordered prayers said for their souls.
The council's minutes remain the best source of information for its period in Spanish history.