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56:3 \u201cAnd let not the foreigner say, who joins the LORD, saying, \u201cThe LORD has kept me apart from His people,\u201d nor let the eunuch say, \u201cWhy, I am a withered tree.\u201d\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This declaration extends the prophet\u2019s program of inclusion. Eunuchs and men otherwise sexually maimed were prohibited from participation in the Temple cult. One therefore may infer that the \u201cjoining\u201d the LORD envisaged here is not limited to the cultic (although sacrifices are mentioned in verse 7) but involves entering a community of observance–in particular, observance of the sabbath. The eunuch can produce no biological offspring, but in adhering to the covenant, he becomes part of a community vouchsafed the covenantal promise of a destiny to be as multitudinous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the shore. This notion is spelled out in verse 5, \u201cI will give them in My house and within my walls \/ a marker and a name better than sons and daughters.\u201d Offspring means permanence; here permanence is being part of the covenanted people.<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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