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“Don’t let foreigners who commit themselves to the Lord say,
    ‘The Lord will never let me be part of his people.’
And don’t let the eunuchs say,
    ‘I’m a dried-up tree with no children and no future.’
For this is what the Lord says:
I will bless those eunuchs
    who keep my Sabbath days holy
and who choose to do what pleases me
    and commit their lives to me.
I will give them—within the walls of my house—
    a memorial and a name
    far greater than sons and daughters could give.
For the name I give them is an everlasting one.
    It will never disappear!

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“Let[a] no foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say:
    ‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.’
Furthermore, let no eunuch say,
    ‘Look![b] I am just a dry tree.’”
For this is what the Lord says:

“To the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths,
    who choose the things that please me,
        and who hold fast my covenant—
to them I will give in my house[c] and within my walls
    a monument and a name
        better than sons and daughters.
I will give them[d] an everlasting name
    that will not be cut off.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 56:3 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT read And let
  2. Isaiah 56:3 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab MT; LXX lacks Look!
  3. Isaiah 56:5 I.e. God’s Temple
  4. Isaiah 56:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT read him
  5. Isaiah 56:5 The Heb. verb is a word play on the Heb. word eunuch