He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
Parallel translations
- KJV He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
- BSB No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- ESV “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
- NKJV “He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the Lord.
- NASB “No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off may enter the assembly of the Lord.
- NLT “If a man’s testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Isa 56:3–4Let no foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.” Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
- Neh 13:1–3On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
- Deut 23:2–3A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
- Lev 21:17–21“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
- Lev 22:22–24Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.
- Deut 23:8The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
- Lam 1:10The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
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