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Ezra 8:24-9:2 (Episode 358)

40 Minutes In The Old Testament

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The Importance of Keeping the Holy Race Pure

The reason is always because these women say it's a Canaanite woman. Okay, she was raised worshiping Baal, let's say her ash or whoever. So the reason they're giving here so that the Holy race has mixed itself for the peoples of the lands is an illegitimate, not unwarranted interpretation of the scriptures. That in my opinion is not warranted by the Torah. But what we never have in the Torah is a concern that the quote Holy seed of Israel is going to be somehow contaminated by non Israelite blood.

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