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If they do that, I will give them a special place in my temple.
    It will cause people to remember them.
Their name will continue in a better way
    than through sons and daughters.
People will always honour their name.
    Nobody will cut it off.[a]
I will also bless foreigners who decide to serve me.

They must be faithful to me as my servants.

They must respect the rules for the Sabbath day and keep it special.

They must always obey my covenant.

Then I will bring them to my holy mountain.[b]

I will make them happy in my house, where people pray to me.

I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices,

    when they offer them to me on my altar.
People will call my temple,
    “A house where people from all nations may pray.” ’[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 56:5 ‘cut it off’. A eunuch could not have children, because someone had cut off his testicles.
  2. 56:7 ‘my holy mountain’ means Mount Zion in Jerusalem, where Solomon built God's temple.
  3. 56:7 See Matthew 21:13.