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Can A Bastard's Descendant Enter Into The Congregation Of The Lord?
Deuteronomy 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
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However, David was the 9th generation offspring of Perez, the bastard son of Judah and Tamar.
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The Hebrew word for 'bastard' there, 'mamzer' refers to the offspring of a Jewish person and a heathen. There's no indication that Tamar (Perez' mother) was a heathen. But even if she was, this is not a contradiction. This would just mean that David broke the rules by entering the congregation when he should not have (the Deut. passage is a rule, not a prophecy). Not a contradiction.