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For this is what the Lord says:

“To the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths,
    who choose the things that please me,
        and who hold fast my covenant—
to them I will give in my house[a] and within my walls
    a monument and a name
        better than sons and daughters.
I will give them[b] an everlasting name
    that will not be cut off.[c]

“Also, the foreigners who join themselves to[d] the Lord,
    to minister to him,
        to love the name of the Lord,[e]
to be his servants,
    and to bless the Lord’s name,
observing[f] the Sabbath without profaning it,
    and who hold fast my covenant—

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 56:5 I.e. God’s Temple
  2. Isaiah 56:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT read him
  3. Isaiah 56:5 The Heb. verb is a word play on the Heb. word eunuch
  4. Isaiah 56:6 So 1QIsaa (cf. v 3); 1QIsab MT read upon
  5. Isaiah 56:6 So 1QIsab MT LXX; 1QIsaa lacks this line
  6. Isaiah 56:6 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read all who observe