K Randolph wrote:Indeed, Harold, and this is the background to my suggestion that Isaiah 56:3-8 may simply be a restatement of this principle, that foreigners are welcome to participate in Israelite religion, that it was never intended to be a simply racial religion.
That non-Jews should be accepted if they accept God's covenant goes
back to the Torah itself.
HH: I realize this. The law says the following in Numbers 15:
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Torah was always for all peoples. Only a tiny percentage follow it.
HH: Actually, the Mosaic law was given to a specific people, not all people. It was given to the descendants of Jacob (not, for example, to the descendants of Esau, who were excluded). But of course others could and did join them. You are right that foreigners could participate in the Israelite religion, but they had to act like Israelites if they were do so:
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