Topic
Proselytes
25 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 17:13Torrey REQUIRED — To be circumcised
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Exodus 12:48Torrey REQUIRED — To be circumcised
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
- Exodus 12:49Torrey REQUIRED — To observe the law of Moses as Jews
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
- Deuteronomy 23:3Torrey From the Ammonites and Moabites restricted for ever from holding office in the congregation
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
- Deuteronomy 23:7Torrey From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third generation from holding office in the congregation
¶ Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
- Deuteronomy 23:8Torrey From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third generation from holding office in the congregation
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
- Deuteronomy 29:10–13Torrey REQUIRED — To enter into covenant to serve the Lord
¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the…
- Ruth 1:16Torrey REQUIRED — To give up all heathen associates
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
- Ruth 2:11Torrey REQUIRED — To give up all heathen associates
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people…
- Ezra 6:21Torrey REQUIRED — To give up all heathen practices
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
- Nehemiah 10:28Torrey REQUIRED — To enter into covenant to serve the Lord
¶ And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having…
- Nehemiah 10:29Torrey REQUIRED — To enter into covenant to serve the Lord
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
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- Esther 8:17 Torrey Described
- Psalms 45:10 Torrey REQUIRED — To give up all heathen associates
- Isaiah 56:3 Torrey Described
- Isaiah 56:3–7 Torrey Were entitled to all privileges
- Ezekiel 14:7 Torrey Unfaithfulness in, punished
- Matthew 23:15 Torrey Pharisees, zealous in making
- Luke 14:26 Torrey REQUIRED — To give up all heathen associates
- John 12:20 Torrey Later called devout Greeks
- Acts 2:10 Torrey Went up to the feasts
- Acts 6:5 Torrey Many, embraced the gospel
- Acts 8:27 Torrey Went up to the feasts
- Acts 13:43 Torrey Many, embraced the gospel
- Acts 17:4 Torrey Later called devout Greeks
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 26 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Described Es 8:17; Isa 56:3
- REQUIRED
- Unfaithfulness in, punished Eze 14:7
- From the Ammonites and Moabites restricted for ever from holding office in the congregation De 23:3
- From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third generation from holding office in the congregation De 23:7,8
- Were entitled to all privileges Ex 12:48; Isa 56:3-7
- Went up to the feasts Ac 2:10; 8:27
- Pharisees, zealous in making Mt 23:15
- Many, embraced the gospel Ac 6:5; 13:43
- Later called devout Greeks Joh 12:20; Ac 17:4
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.