“He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.”
No one born of a forbidden union shall enter the assembly of the LORD — this verse opens Israel's boundary laws, establishing the holy community's exclusivity. The term 'forbidden union' (mamzer) refers to offspring of unions prohibited by covenant law. Purity of lineage guards the integrity of God's people, reflecting the logic that the assembly's holiness extends even to genealogy.
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