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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.

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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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