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Originally Posted by mfblume
Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
For Moses to say that it can only mean there is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE between what people would call a genealogical Jew and one WHO JOINED Judaism.
Otherwise, Moses could not say a proselyte becomes as one that is born in the land, but CLOSE to one born in the land. But he said TOTALLY AS ONE born in the land. TOTALLY.
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Yes... so the lineage of the Israelites/Jews is quite muddied, apparently! No way at all to ever know who is a "true" Jew/Israelite!