² “If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.

Idolatrous Worship Condemned

⁸ If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.

⁴¹ No, you are imitating your real father.”

They replied, “We aren’t illegitimate children! God himself is our true Father.”