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Deuteronomy 23:1
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Deuteronomy 23:1
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Exclusion From the Assembly
23 [a]No one who has been emasculated(A) by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 23:1 In Hebrew texts 23:1-25 is numbered 23:2-26.
Deuteronomy 23:1
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Deuteronomy 23:1
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23 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
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Galatians 3:28
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Galatians 3:28
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28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free,(A) nor is there male and female,(B) for you are all one in Christ Jesus.(C)
Galatians 3:28
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Galatians 3:28
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28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Isaiah 56:3-4
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Isaiah 56:3-4
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3 Let no foreigner(A) who is bound to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.”(B)
And let no eunuch(C) complain,
“I am only a dry tree.”
4 For this is what the Lord says:
Isaiah 56:3-4
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Isaiah 56:3-4
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3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
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Nehemiah 13:1-3
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Nehemiah 13:1-3
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Nehemiah’s Final Reforms
13 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God,(A) 2 because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam(B) to call a curse down on them.(C) (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)(D) 3 When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.(E)
Nehemiah 13:1-3
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Nehemiah 13:1-3
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13 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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Deuteronomy 23:2-3
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Deuteronomy 23:2-3
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2 No one born of a forbidden marriage[a] nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
3 No Ammonite(A) or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.(B)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 23:2 Or one of illegitimate birth
Deuteronomy 23:2-3
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Deuteronomy 23:2-3
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2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever:
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Leviticus 21:17-21
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Leviticus 21:17-21
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17 “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect(A) may come near to offer the food of his God.(B) 18 No man who has any defect(C) may come near: no man who is blind(D) or lame,(E) disfigured or deformed; 19 no man with a crippled foot or hand, 20 or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.(F) 21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect(G) is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord.(H) He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.(I)
Leviticus 21:17-21
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Leviticus 21:17-21
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17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
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Lamentations 1:10
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Lamentations 1:10
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Lamentations 1:10
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Lamentations 1:10
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10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
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Deuteronomy 23:8
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Deuteronomy 23:8
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8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 23:8
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Deuteronomy 23:8
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8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
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Leviticus 22:22-24
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Leviticus 22:22-24
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22 Do not offer to the Lord the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. 23 You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox[a] or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow. 24 You must not offer to the Lord an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut.(A) You must not do this in your own land,
Footnotes
- Leviticus 22:23 The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female.
Leviticus 22:22-24
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Leviticus 22:22-24
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22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the Lord.
23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
24 Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
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