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Leviticus 21:20 or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles.

Leviticus 22:24 Also anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD, or sacrifice in your land, (NASB ©1995)

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He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

1-8 Who may or may not enter into the congregation 9-14 Uncleanness is to be avoided in the host 15,16 Of the fugitive servant 17 Of filthiness 18 Of abominable sacrifices 19 Of usury 20-23 Of vows 24,25 Of trespass

wounded Le 21:17-21 22:22-24 Ga 3:28

shall not enter It is evident that his law was not meant to exclude such Israelites either from the common benefits of civil society, or any essential religious advantages; but merely to lay them under a disgraceful distinction. This would tend to discourage parents from thus treating their children; a practice which was exceedingly common in those ages and countries. To this they were induced by the custom which prevailed, of employing such in the houses in the great and the courts of princes; so they often rose to the highest posts of honour and authority. Some expositors therefore consider the phrase, `shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord,' as meaning, that they should be incapable of bearing any office in that government which was placed over the people of God, who must thus enter a protest against this custom, and deliver selfish parents from this temptation. De 23:2,3,8 Ne 13:1-3 Isa 56:3,4 La 1:10

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Assembly Bruised Congregation Crushed Crushing Cut Cutting Emasculated Enter Eunuch Lord's Maimed Male Meeting Member Mutilated Organ Private Privy Secrets Stones Testicles Whether Wounded

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