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Church of Israel: Persons Excluded From Exodus 12:48

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

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Church of Israel: Persons Excluded From Deuteronomy 23:1–4

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD. / No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation. / No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

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Church of Israel: Persons Excluded From Ezekiel 44:7, 9

In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant. / This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.

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