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17 In every province and every city where the king’s command and edict reached, gladness and joy took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday.[a](A) And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews(B) had overcome them.

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  1. 8:17 Lit good day

No foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord
should say,
‘The Lord will exclude me from his people,’(A)
and the eunuch should not say,
‘Look, I am a dried-up tree.’(B)

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As for the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to become his servants –
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold firmly to my covenant –

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11 ‘Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and become my[a] people.(A) I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.

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  1. 2:11 LXX, Syr read his