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For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
    and choose that in which I delight,
    and who keep hold of my covenant.
And I will give them a monument and a name in my house and within my walls,
    better than sons and daughters;
I will give him an everlasting name
    that shall not be cut off.
And the foreigners[a] who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him
    and to love the name of Yahweh, to become his servants,
every one who keeps the Sabbath, so as not to profane[b] it,
    and those who keep hold of my covenant,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 56:6 Literally “sons of the foreign country”
  2. Isaiah 56:6 Literally “from profaning”

For this is what the Lord says:

“To the eunuchs(A) who keep my Sabbaths,
    who choose what pleases me
    and hold fast to my covenant(B)
to them I will give within my temple and its walls(C)
    a memorial(D) and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name(E)
    that will endure forever.(F)
And foreigners(G) who bind themselves to the Lord
    to minister(H) to him,
to love the name(I) of the Lord,
    and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath(J) without desecrating it
    and who hold fast to my covenant—

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