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Nehemiah 13:1-3
At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them, but our God turned the curse into a blessing.When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent from Israel.
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Galatians 3:28
There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Deuteronomy 23:2-3
No one of illegitimate birth may enter the LORD’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the LORD’s assembly.No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the LORD’s assembly; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the LORD’s assembly.
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Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her precious belongings. She has even seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
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Isaiah 56:3-4
No foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD should say,“ The LORD will exclude me from his people,” and the eunuch should not say,“ Look, I am a dried-up tree.”For the LORD says this:“ For the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose what pleases me, and hold firmly to my covenant,
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Deuteronomy 23:8
The children born to them in the third generation may enter the LORD’s assembly.
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Leviticus 22:22-24
You are not to present any animal to the LORD that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.You may sacrifice as a freewill offering any animal from the herd or flock that has an elongated or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable as a vow offering.You are not to present to the LORD anything that has bruised, crushed, torn, or severed testicles; you must not sacrifice them in your land.
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Leviticus 21:17-21
“ Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;no man who has a broken foot or hand,or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.No descendant of the priest Aaron who has a defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.
