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He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
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A Symbol of Holiness
Commentators explain this law was part of a larger system to ensure the visible holiness and integrity of Israel. By prohibiting those with specific physical mutilations—often associated with pagan practices or a marring of God's image—from the assembly, the law emphasized that God's people were to be whole and set apart.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Leviticus 21:17-24. Such persons, exhibiting a mutilation of that human nature which was made in God’s image, were rejected from the covena…
19th Century
Anglican
The rule that a eunuch should not enter into the congregation was undoubtedly intended to prevent the Israelite rulers from making eunuchs of their…
16th Century
Protestant
He that is wounded.
What is delivered here concerning those who are mutilated, and who are bastards, has a similar object: to preve…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He that is wounded in the stones In any of them, not accidentally, but purposely; which are crushed and bruised by th…
We ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselves and for our children, above all other advantages. No personal blemishes, no cr…
