“A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.”
No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD — the physical wholeness required for sanctuary participation reflects ancient Near Eastern concepts of completeness necessary for holy space. This is not condemnation of the individual but a statement about ritual purity boundaries; eunuchs (like those later in the Persian and Hellenistic periods) served faithfully despite these rules.
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