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Who Cannot Become One of the Lord's People

Moses said to Israel:

23 If a man's private parts have been crushed or cut off,[a] he cannot fully belong to the Lord's people.

No one born outside of a legal marriage, or any of their descendants for ten generations, can fully belong to the Lord's people.

(A) No Ammonites or Moabites, or any of their descendants for ten generations, can become part of Israel, the Lord's people.

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Footnotes

  1. 23.1 a man's private parts have been crushed or cut off: This was sometimes done to show devotion to pagan gods.

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