Veteran Member 613 posts Joined: May 24, 2009
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Posted at 5:18 pm on Jul 18, 2010

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I didn't post the link to try to make a point. I made my points down below. Just thought it was a neat coincidence and thought you might be interested.
Anyway, just look at the example of Ruth. Ruth converted before marrying Boaz and bearing Obed. See Ruth 1:16, where Ruth states her intention to convert. After Ruth converted, she was a Jew, and all of her children born after the conversion were Jewish as well. Of course, if a man converted, he had to get circumcised as well, but once he did, he was Jewish, as can be seen in the case of the law about foreign men who had to be circumcised before eating the Passover (Exodus 12:48). You had to be Jewish in order to eat the Passover--and think about it--it was a celebration of the Exodus from Egypt, something which those foreigners never experienced, nor did their ancestors experience. And yet, once they were Jewish it became part of their heritage. Another law states that foreign women captured in war could be made wives and thus adopted into the Israelite community. A sort of conversion process is described (Deuteronomy 21:10–14).
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