Isaiah 56:3 meaning and explanation

Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

Isaiah 56:3, Berean Standard Bible

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In context, the LORD is speaking through Isaiah to a community back from exile, and verse 3 answers two groups who feared exclusion. Foreigners who had bound themselves to the LORD, and eunuchs, who could not produce heirs, might assume Israel's assembly was closed to them.

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