Persons Excluded from the Assembly

23 (A)No one who is [a]emasculated or has his male organ cut off may enter the assembly of the Lord.

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:1 Lit wounded by crushing of testicles

Exclusion From the Assembly

23 [a]No one who has been emasculated(A) by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:1 In Hebrew texts 23:1-25 is numbered 23:2-26.

But (A)Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a [a](B)eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting at the (C)Gate of Benjamin;

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  1. Jeremiah 38:7 Or high official

But Ebed-Melek,(A) a Cushite,[a] an official[b](B) in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,(C)

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  1. Jeremiah 38:7 Probably from the upper Nile region
  2. Jeremiah 38:7 Or a eunuch

27 So he got ready and went; and [a](A)there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of [b]Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he (B)had come to Jerusalem to worship,

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  1. Acts 8:27 Lit behold, an Ethiopian
  2. Acts 8:27 Possibly an Ethiopian title: the Candace

27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian[a](A) eunuch,(B) an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,(C)

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  1. Acts 8:27 That is, from the southern Nile region