The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
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The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
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The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
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(23-9) The children of the third generation that are born unto them may enter into the assembly of the LORD.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 23:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 20:5-6 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
- Deuteronomy 23:1-3 He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly. A 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. An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,
- Ephesians 2:12-13 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
- Romans 3:29-30 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received…
If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received circumcision.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 23:8 The children that are begotten of them…
Deu 23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
Ver. 8. In their third generation.] The Edomites for their consanguinity, - it is some privilege to be allied to the saints, to be "sister’s son to Barnabas," - the {Col 4:10} Egyptians for their hospitality to God’s firstborn Israel. "God is not unrighteous," &c. {Heb 6:10} {See Trapp on "Heb 6:10"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Supposing their grandfather or great grandfather turned proselyte, and…
Supposing their grandfather or great grandfather turned proselyte, and the children continue in that faith received by such ancestors.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The children that are begotten of them, Of such…
The children that are begotten of them, Of such as became proselytes:
shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation; not in the third generation from the time that this law was made, but from the time that any of them should embrace the true religion; their sons were the second generation, and their grandchildren the third; and such might be admitted into the congregation, and be reckoned as of them, both in their civil and church state, and be capable of serving even offices among them, and of marriage with them, as the Targum of Jonathan; which some of the Jews interpret of males only, for females, according to them, might be married immediately as soon as made proselytes, in which way they account for the lawfulness of Solomon's marriage of Pharaoh's daughter (p).
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(p) Vid. Kimchi in 1 Reg. 3. 1. or 1 Ki. 3. 1. & Misn. Yebamot, c. 8. sect. 3.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In their third generation - Supposing their grandfather, or…
In their third generation - Supposing their grandfather, or great- grandfather turned proselyte, and the children continue in that faith received by such ancestors.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Lord. The Rabbins explain this of the permission to…
Lord. The Rabbins explain this of the permission to marry the grand-children of such as had embraced the Jewish religion, though some of them suppose that an Idumean or an Egyptian woman might be taken to wife, as Solomon took the daughter of Pharao; but the Israelites could not give their children in marriage to the men of those nations. The grand-children of converts are rather hereby entitled to the privileges of other Jewish citizens. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) The children that are begotten of them From…
(8) The children that are begotten of them From this passage it is clear that it was not only from Egypt that a “mixed multitude” came up with Israel. It seems to have been impossible to prevent some inter-marriages between Edom, Moab, and Israel when the Israelites passed through their land. Such a precept is suitable to the circumstances of Moses’ time. It would be less necessary when the bulk of the people had gone over the Jordan and left Moab and Edom far behind.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:8 third generation: Following a long period of probation,…
23:8 third generation: Following a long period of probation, Edomites and Egyptians who lived in Israel could worship the Lord as converts to the faith.
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