Wednesday Bible Study: Some very strange dos and don ' ts

 Deuteronomy 23 is, to me, largely inexplicable.23 “He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of theLord.KJV puts this more quaintly:" He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. " Fortunately, Isaiah didn ' t go along with this: "Neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.Isaiah 56:3-5 "2 “No bastard shall enter the assembly of theLord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of theLord.Uhm, that seems kind of not fair.3 “No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of theLord; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of theLord for ever;4 because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Be ′or from Pethor of Mesopota′mia, to curse you.5 Nevertheless theLord your God would not hearken to Balaam; but theLord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because theLord your God lo...
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