You’ve heard the word Gentiles used in sermons and Scripture—but have you ever been shown what it actually means according to the Bible? We invite you to peel back the layers of history to see that you, as a seeker from the nations, can be woven into the eternal fabric of the Covenants.

In this teaching we cast aside the confusion that has plagued the modern church for generations. In this video, you’ll learn how Scripture defines Gentiles, how this identity is used throughout the Bible, and why misunderstanding it has led to confusion in modern Christianity. You will gain a clear, scriptural understanding of what it truly means to be a “gentile”. We walk you through the biblical framework so you can read the Bible with sharper eyes and a stronger foundation.

This teaching will help you unlearn assumptions and replace man-made theology with biblical definition. So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about who the Gentiles really are.

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Teaching Introduction

Words have meaning. That’s especially true when it comes to the reading and studying of the Bible. And if you don’t know what a word means, you’re going to be led astray and not even understand what you’re reading in the Bible. Worse than that, if you have an incorrect understanding of what a word means, you’re going to be led astray and down a wrong path. That has happened to so many people regarding this one particular word, gentile. In this teaching, we’re going to go through the word gentile and show you from scripture and from the dictionaries and lexicons exactly what gentile means so that you will know going forward in your reading and studying of scripture and be able to more accurately discern what the word is trying to tell you. All of this and more coming up in this teaching.

Video Start

So this teaching or Josh is going to be all about Gentiles. Who they are. What’s you know what does the word mean when we say the word gentile? What does scripture actually mean by the word gentile as compared to what we mean nowadays when we say that word gentile? So this is a draw all about gentiles. The gentile identity from stranger to citizen. You’ll see where that headline or that title and subline comes from as we go through tonight’s teaching.

Now, if you’d like more information than what we’re able to present here in this particular teaching, be sure to go to our website at www.godhonesttruth.com. There you’ll be able to find the article post for this particular episode that will have the on demand video. You’ll also have the draw slides that you see here on your screen. You’ll have the notes that we took for this episode which has almost 100 pages of information in that notes. And you also have the transcript all right there on one convenient article post, one convenient web page.

And yeah, there’s a whole bunch more information than what we’re presenting here. This one is going, this is already 51 slides. It’s going to be long. There’s lots of information in this presentation, but there’s even more in the notes. Way more, probably double, if not more. So, go check out the notes today or you go down below in the description and we have provided a convenient link for you down there that’ll take you directly to that article post on our website. And that link should be down there in the description whether you’re watching on a video platform or an audio podcasting platform.

Teaching Outline

Now, starting out, let’s outline what we’re going to be going through tonight real quick, just so you give a just to give you a quick road map of what this teaching is going to sort of look like. First off, we’re going to go over some foundational terminology, some information that will kind of help set the stage and help you to better understand what we’re talking about as we go forward. Now, of course, we’re going to be backing everything up with a ton of scripture. So, if you’re taking notes, definitely make sure you’ve got your notes ready and you’ve exercised that hand so you don’t get any cramps coming up. We’re going to look at the word gentile as it appears in the Tanakh and how it is used in the Tanakh. We’re going to look at Israel and is Israel actually referred to as a gentile in scripture. Well, stay tuned. We’re going to get into that.

We’re going to look at the word gentile and the Brit Hadasha, how it’s used there. We’re going to look at Yeshua’s own words when he is teaching or speaking or talking about stuff and in the words that he speaks and it mentions Gentiles, how it is that he is referencing Gentiles there. So, you definitely don’t want to miss that. We’re also going to finish up with some logic and reasoning. Thinking about well what is the modern understanding or definition that is common within churchianity nowadays and how does that logically fit with what we find from scripture. So that’s going to be very eye opening and it’s going to be more of a thought experiment than anything else at that point. And then finally, we’re going to wrap it up with a summary of everything that we’ve gone over in this particular presentation.

Teaching Foundations

So, let’s start out with some teaching foundations and some uh how you say uh bedrock information and terminology for the draw going forward here. And first and foremost, let’s go over the word Jew. What is a Jew? Well, a lot of people think they know what Jew means, but just to give it a definition, the word Jew can mean one of three particularly different things. It can be someone from the lineage of the tribe of Judah. That’s actually where the word really comes from, that word Jew. So someone from the lineage of the tribe of Judah, someone from the lineage of the southern kingdom of Judea because remember when the uh nation of Israel split there was a northern kingdom and the southern kingdom and the southern kingdom was referred to as Judea.

So that was three tribes that was remaining there in that particular southern kingdom of Judea that was Levi, Benjamin and Judah. So it could be the term Jew could refer to someone from the southern kingdom. Also it the third instance is could refer to someone of the Jewish faith. Now let’s stop right here a moment and just kind of hash this out real quick because this really gets confusing. A lot of times people talk and use the word Jew as if it went all the way back to the beginning with Adam and Eve. But that’s false.

Judaism, the religion, the faith of Judaism did not go back that far. It only goes back to the first century during the time of Yeshua. How is that? Well, the reason is back in the Tanakh, we see in even in the book of Genesis in the very first three, four chapters, we get messianic prophecies about this coming Messiah. And it’s all throughout the Tanakh, these prophecies about the Messiah. Moses tells us that Yahweh will raise up a prophet like me, right? All sorts of different things.

So there’s talk about this coming Messiah and we know that Yeshua is that foretold Messiah from the Tanakh. In that sense and with that understanding, we know that the entire set of scriptures and the lineage all the way from creation was about Messiah and therefore is an entire messianic or Christian history, not a Jewish one. Judaism has obviously denies the real Messiah. And that didn’t start until the first century when the Messiah actually came and there was that group of people, that group of Judeans who rejected the true Messiah. And that is the starting point for Judaism as we know it today. And the all-encompassing Judaism too, not just the Orthodox, but also the reformed and the karaite etc, etc. They all reject the true Messiah.

So the religion or the faith of Judaism did not start until the first century. So no and it’s not those back then were not of the Jewish faith. They might have been of the tribe of Judah or the southern kingdom of Judea, but they were not of the Jewish faith. They were all Christians or Messianics even way back then in the Tanakh. They were looking forward to the actual true Messiah. So that’s what the term Jew actually means. It means someone from the lineage of the tribe of Judah, someone from the lineage from the southern kingdom of Judea, or someone of the Jewish faith.

Now, unfortunately, people tend to conflate these things and incorrectly use that term. and we’ll try to point it out as we read various dictionary or website entries and they get it wrong and they use the term Jew for the Hebrew people or the people in the Tanakh. And we’ll try to point that out as we go forward, but just know that sometimes it does get misused and you’ve got really got to understand the context to understand what they’re actually referring to when they say the term Jew. Now, moving on. Now that we know what the term Jew actually means, we can now put our thinking processes to work.

And we now know and understand why it is that Adam himself was not a Jew. Noah was not a Jew. Abraham was not a Jew. Abraham is never, not one single instance in scripture ever referred to as a Jew. Abraham is the first one referred to as a Hebrew. Yes. but not a Jew because all Jews are Hebrews.

All ethnic Jews that are genetic Jews, they are Hebrew, no doubt. But not all Hebrews are Jews. Some Hebrews are Levites. Some Hebrews are Benjamites, etc., etc. So, you get that. All Jews are Hebrews, but not all Hebrews are Jews. So Abraham, he might have been the first Hebrew, but he was not a Jew.

Isaac was not a Jew. Jacob was not a Jew. And finally, Moses was not a Jew. He was actually from the tribe of Levi. So Moses was a Levite, not a Jew. So etc, etc, etc. You understand the term now? So you can go through and you can easily easily figure out if someone you’re reading about in scripture is actually a Jew or not and which sense of that term they actually belong to if the term Jew can be applied to them.

So that’s I beg to do about one particular word but I wanted to correct that because there’s a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to that particular word. Moving on let’s look at the word exegesis. Now, exegesis is a word that means from britannica.com, quote, exegesis, the critical interpretation of the biblical text to discover its intended meaning. End quote. And from logos.com, quote, simply put, exegesis is not about discovering what we think a text means or want it to mean, but what the biblical author meant. It’s concerned with intentionality, what the author intended his original readers to understand. End quote.

 

So, exegesis is when you read and study the scriptures and draw out what the Bible is actually telling you. You’re learning from the Bible. That is exegesis. That’s the kind of process we should be using. We should be using exegetical processes to learn what the Bible wants us to learn. The Bible should change us. We should not change the Bible.

 

Now when people try to change the Bible that is a process called eisegesis and from etymonline quote eisegesis is the reading of one’s own ideas into scripture from Greek eis meaning in or into plus the ending from exegesis end quote. And from logos.com quote ex means to take out of while eis means into. So quite simply, exegesis means digging into the text to pull out the meaning while its opposite eisegesis reads meaning into a text that isn’t there. End quote. So hopefully you understand the difference. Now with eisegesis, you’re taking your own beliefs, your own presuppositions, and you’re forcing them back into the text.

Try and make it say what you want it to say. And that leads to all sorts of errors. So exegesis is learning what the Bible wants you to learn. Eisegesis is trying to force your own ideas into the Bible. The Bible should change us. We shouldn’t try to change the Bible. That’s the difference.

And when it comes to the word gentile, this is definitely a lot of times a an exercise of eisegesis. They people within Christianity nowadays, they take their own presuppositions, their own tradition of what they think gentile actually means, and they try to force it back into scripture. And that’s led to a lot of errors. And unfortunately, a lot of people nowadays, they think that gentile means someone other than Jew, whether that be of the Jewish ethnicity or especially of the Jewish religion. So there’s Jews and then there’s everybody else.

And of course, everybody else is a Gentile, and that’s okay. We should be Gentiles. We can’t change it, etc., etc., but is that true? Well, hold on. Have your notes ready because we’re going to get into all of that coming up here in just a minute. But that is what exegesis and eisegesis is.

Now, let’s look at a super nerdy term real quick that goes along with this particular study. And this isn’t you don’t have to remember this. This is just for your perusal, for your notes, for your understanding if you want to be super nerdy like I am. Anyways, this is the word exonym. And an exonym is a name used for a people group by outsiders as opposed to the name the group uses for itself. Here is well actually let’s go over some more definitions.

Anyways, the opposite word endonym is the self designation. That’s what we call ourselves. Exonym like we just said is the outsider designation. That’s what others call us or what we call others, other a group of other people. Some examples, German is an exonym. Like here in America, we would call people from Germany as Germans.

But Germans wouldn’t call themselves Germans. They would call themselves Deutsch. That would be the endonym. That’s what Germans call themselves. They call themselves Deutsch. Greek is an exonym.

That’s what we call people from Greece, but people from Greece would call themselves Hellenes or Hellenes or however how you pronounce that. So you get the difference there. It’s what one group calls an outside group. That’s what an exonym is. In academic, historical, and biblical discussions, exonym is the term to use when the emphasis is not your own people group. Hopefully, you’ve already kind of discerned what we mean by this.

 

Exonym is going to be our word of the night and that’s going to be gentile. That’s what we believers call everyone else gentile. Stay tuned. We’re going to back that up. Moving on. This is about And we’re going to look at a lot here coming up in the Tanakh section.

 

But anyways, from biblehub.com. Quote, Hebrews usually in plural goyim, meaning in general all nations except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges, it acquired unpleasant associations and was used as a term of contempt. End quote. If you’ve ever been around other or been around a group of Jews, and I do this all the time on um online forums, stuff like that, they’ll refer to anyone who is not an ethnic Jew or someone who is not of the Jewish faith as a goy or the goy is the singular. Goyim is the plural.

And it’s used as a derogatory term a lot of times nowadays. Even in scripture, we’ll show you in just a minute. Even in scripture, it’s used as a derogatory term as well in a lot of cases, too. But just know if some you’re talking online or you’re talking in person to a Jew or whatnot and they refer to you as a goy or one of the goyim a lot of times it’s probably going to be in a derogatory sense. But again, all in context, so take everything into context.

Now, moving on, the Greek word, sorry, let me back up real quick. Goy or goy is going to be translated a lot of times into the word that we know of nowadays as gentile or nations or some other terms we’ll get into in just a minute. That is the Hebrew word that’s translated a lot of times into gentile. But the Greek word that we’re going to look at when we get into the Brit Hadasha, the Greek word is going to be ethnos. And from biblestudytools.com, quote, the Greek word most often translated to gentile is ethnos. This word means nations or people.

In the Bible, when this word is used, it is not describing one nation or ethnic group. Rather, the term gentile refers to anyone who is not of Jewish descent. Gentile would also broadly describe those who do not believe in God. End quote. Now, here is that conflation I was telling you about earlier where it says that rather the term gentile refers to anyone who is not of Jewish descent. Here they’re actually the way I’m taking it in context is meaning anyone that is not of Hebrew descent.

Jewish descent is incorrect. Hebrew descent or Hebraic descent. That would be the more correct term. Going on looking at gentile, the definition from Merriam Webster. Quote, first sense, number one, often gentile, a person of a non-Jewish nation or of non-Jewish faith. Number two, in second sense, heathen.

Number three, often gentile, one who is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. End quote. And unfortunately, that’s true as well. you talk to various uh people with in the Mormon church or the Latter-day Saints church or whatever you want to call it, they’ll refer to people who are not Mormons as Gentiles. So again, that’s the exonym that’s used for people uh by people in the Mormon church who are of people who are not in the Mormon church. I’m getting tongue tied.

There are other groups that do this as well. If you’ve ever learned anything about the Amish, the Amish refer to everyone who is not Amish as the English. So different groups have different exonyms for outside people groups. When it comes to the Bible, if you want to say it in if you want to say it in Hebrew, you would say goy or goyim meaning that would mean someone who is not of the people of Yahweh. We translate that into our word a lot of times as the word gentile or heathen or pagan or nations sometimes. And also the Greek word is going to be ethnos which we again translate into the English word gentile or heathen or pagan or nations etc.

Now, one of the best explanations for the word gentile comes from the notes in the scriptures 2009 translation and it reads here quote in Hebrew and in Greek the word literally means nations. Israel is a nation but is not numbered among the nations. It is for this reason that Israel is rather referred to as a people whereas the word nations are used for those outside of covenant with Yahweh. In scripture, the word nations has the meaning of non-Israeli or non-Yahud. In most cases, in a few instances, it means many or all nations, including Israel. The true believer is repeatedly admonished not to learn the way of the Gentiles.

Therefore, those who are Gentiles but came to belief, who are grafted in among Israel, simply have to unlearn their old Gentile ways and come to the light of Zion and walk in the light of the renewed Jerusalem. They shall serve Yahweh. They shall love the name of Yahweh. They shall no longer defile the Sabbath, and they shall hold fast the covenant of Yahweh.” End quote. And that is beautifully put from the editors of the scriptures 2009 translation.

But once again, as we say here just about every single episode, if not every other episode, all of our doctrine, all of our faith, the things that we should believe should come from scripture, not from any pope or priest or cardinal or preacher or reverend or anything like that. It shouldn’t even come from notes in a translation or a lexicon. We should always get it from scripture. 

‘Gentile’ in the Tanakh

With that thought, let’s go ahead and look at the word gentile in the Tanakh. And what that is now, what we referenced earlier is this word gentile in English comes from the Hebrew word goy. That is the singular and the plural is goyim.

And we’ll see both those instances coming up as we go through this. Anyways, the outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.org. I’m sorry. This is Strong’s H1471. Again, H1471. And the outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.org.

It says here the it’s translated as nation or people. Nation or people usually of non-Hebrew people of descendants of Abraham, of Israel, of swarms of locusts, other animals, and as a proper masculine noun, meaning nations in the plural. The King James translates Strong’s H1471 in the following manner as nation 374 times, heathen 143 times, Gentiles 30 times. So you can see this as we go through this this Hebrew word and then the subsequent Greek word that we get into all translated as gentile. The meaning behind all these words is the same.

The general meaning behind these words is going to be the meaning of someone who is not in covenant with Yahweh. Someone who is an unbeliever. A lot of times they’re pagans. They’re polytheistic, but they don’t have to be. It’s just someone who is not in covenant, is not a believer, who is not one of the children or people of Yahweh. And you’ll see that as we go through this.

There’s only a few rare exceptions, and we’ll get into that as well. But most of the time it means someone who is an unbeliever who is not saved, who’s not a member of the people of Yahweh. Went on looking at the Strong’s definition for goy. And Strongs has goy defined as a foreign nation, a gentile, a troop of animals or a flight of locusts. Gentile, heathen, nation, people from brown driver briggs, pretty much the same thing.

nation, people, descendants of Abraham, definitely of Israel, of non-Hebrew peoples, figurative, a swarm of locusts from Gesenius’s Hebrew lexicon defines as a people, a confluence of men. The word is general and used of the nations at large and also which should not have been doubted by some interpreters of the Israelites especially is used of the other nations besides Israel often with the added notion of being foes and barbarians or of being profane persons strangers to the true religion i.e Gentiles poetically applied to herds and troops of animals from Jastrow’s dictionary of the Targums crowd people nation gentiles gentile idolater etc etc from Klein’s dictionary has defined as nation people gentile and irreligious Jew etc etc and again that this is a Jewish dictionary so they’re defining Jew as meaning someone of Hebrew descent so understand that as Well, and finally from the Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament and it defines as gang people, whole population of a territory rather or DV rather stresses the blood relationship often hardly different nations a single nation often the pagan peoples as opposed to Israel the heathen mankind people persons of animals of mosquitoes of birds etc etc.

 

So that is your lexicographical or your lexicon definitions of the Hebrew word that’s commonly translated as gentile where we get our word gentile from especially in the uh Tanakh. And once again for I cut these entries down a whole bunch and if you want to see more of these particular entries for the dictionaries and the lexicons go check out the notes on our website. Now, as we get into scripture, one of the biggest things that we see when it comes to the word gentile is time and time and time and time again, scripture tells us, “Do not do like those Gentiles.” Don’t believe me? Pay attention.

 

Here we go. Leviticus 18 24-30. Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you. Thus the land became defiled. Therefore I punished it for its crookedness.

But you, you shall guard my laws and my right rulings, and not do any of these abominations, the native nor stranger who sojourns among you, because the men of the land who are before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled. For whoever does any of these abominations, those beings who do them shall be cut off from among their people. And you shall guard my charge so as not to do any of these abominable laws which were done before you so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am Yahweh your Elohim.

Now notice here what it says. It says, “Do not do as the nations do because they were defiled by these things.” And before verse 24, it actually listed out some of those things that we’ll get to here coming up. But notice here in the scriptures 2009 translation, the one that we use here at God honest truth, it translates the word goyim as nations uh most of the time, but other translations translate it differently. A lot of times they will translate it as pagan or heathen or gentile as you see here on your screen.

One particular translation even transliterates the word and prints it in English. It says, “For in all these the goyim, whom am I sent away from your face?” And other translations use the word heathen, pagan, etc., etc. So, it’s all the same thing. gentile, pagan, heathen, whatever. They’re it’s all the same thing.

Someone who is outside of covenant with Yahweh. someone who is not one of the people of Yahweh. And here this is just one among many many many in the Tanakh where it says do not do the ways of the Gentiles because they are defiled by the what they do and the land spits them out because of what they do. Well, what is it they do? Well, in scripture here in Leviticus 18, it actually lists out the things they did before it gets down here to verse 24.

Now, what are some of the things that it is talking about is in verse 16, I’m sorry, verses 6-17, it’s talking about various forms of incest that the Gentiles were doing. Verse 18, it talks about permanently vexing your wife. That’s something the Gentiles were doing. Verse 19 talks about relations with a menstruating woman. Gentiles were doing that.

 

In verse 20, it talks about adultery. In verse 21, it talks about sacrificing children to pagan gods, one particular pagan god in particular. Verse 21b, it’s talking about profaning the name of Yahweh. Then in verse 22, it talks about homosexuality that the Gentiles were participating in. Look back at the story of um Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

And finally in verse 23 leading up to verse 24 in verse 23 it’s talking about the Gentiles partaking in bestiality. And so I’ll stop right there for just a moment and kind of go on this particular point here in Leviticus chapter 18. He’s talking about all these things the Gentiles did. And with the modern definition especially within mainstream churchianity it gets all sorts of screwed up. And this is some of the error that is present within the mainstream Christian church nowadays because they say that there is Jew and Gentile and that everyone nowadays if you’re not a Jew then you’re a Gentile.

 

So they’re saying that everyone who is a Baptist or Catholic or Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Anglican, etc., etc. They’re all Gentiles and therefore they’re not bound by that whole uh law stuff, all that Old Testament stuff. They don’t have to do all that stuff. It’s done away with. Well, number one, they think that the law, the Torah, was not applicable to Gentiles ever.

 

It was only applicable to the people of Israel and only for a certain time until quote unquote Jesus done away with it. Well, number two, they also say that Jesus came to free us from the law. Okay. Well, if we’re Gentiles and the law never applied to us to begin with, then how were we freed from something that was was never applied to us? That makes no sense.

 

Well, they don’t study their Bibles and they don’t understand what a Gentile actually is. And that’s the purpose of this particular episode. Also, they try to use this distinction between Jew and Gentile, saying that they are Gentiles and they say they’re a Gentile Christian, they’re a saved Gentile, which is an oxymoron, to try and justify their doing of things that are prohibited by scripture. Now, I’m not talking about some of these things on your screen right here. What they’re generally talking about is the practice of paganism that has a Jesus sticker on it nowadays.

 

things like Sunday Sabbath, Christmas, Easter, etc., etc. They’re saying, “Oh, we’re Gentiles, so we can do those Gentile things.” But is that really true? Well, number one, no, it’s not true even for the things I mentioned. But also look here at the things that the Gentiles do that the Tanakh was listing out.

 

Bestiality, incest, relations with menstruating women, adultery, profaning in the name of Yahweh, etc., etc., etc. These are the gentile things that scripture says that Gentiles do and that we as believers, as people of Yahweh should not do. Another sentiment that comes along a lot of times within mainstream Christianity is that some people, it’s all over the place, but some people will say that the law, the Torah was done away with except for, you know, the civil stuff and then there’s moral stuff. moral stuff is still applicable, but the civil stuff that’s all been done away with all that ceremonial stuff. Where’s that distinction in scripture?

 

There isn’t one. So, when someone says, you know, the moral law or the civil law, the ceremonial law, they’re making that up and it’s all arbitrary that by themselves. There’s no scripture that says here are the moral law and there then there’s no scripture that says here are the civil laws. No, it’s all just one law. It’s all just one Torah, one Bible.

 

And one more point before we move on. There’s other groups within mainstream Christianity that say that, well, only those things that are restated within the aka New Testament. Only things that are restated are applicable nowadays. Everything else is permitted and okay to do. Well, again, they don’t know what they’re talking about because they haven’t studied scripture, or else they would know that things like incest and bestiality are not reiterated in the New Testament in the Brit Hadasha.

 

So, what they’re saying is that bestiality is okay, that homosexual, I’m sorry, that incest is okay. And there’s other things, too. That’s just two big ones right there. So again, they’re contradicting their own claim to the faith that they claim to have. It’s it’s mindboggling when you get into this whole messianic way of thinking and you start understanding that the entire Bible is for us even today.

 

It always has been. You start having that kind of mindset and you start studying and learning the entire Bible. You start learning the Torah, the different parts of the Torah, the various days and stuff like that. It’s a beautiful thing and it opens up your mind and the rest of scripture really just pops out and comes alive. But these people are being held back.

 

It’s like scripture says they have a veil in front of their face. They can’t understand a lot of what scripture actually means because they have all these misunderstandings that have come down through tradition. But sorry, I’m getting on the soap box here. But yeah, this is in scripture. We’re told that there are people of Yahweh and then there’s Gentiles and scripture tells us do not learn the way of the Gentiles and do not do the way of the Gentiles.

 

Again, we look at some other passages. Here is Deuteronomy 12:29-31. When Yahweh your Elohim does cut off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones, saying, “How did these nations serve their mighty ones, and let me do so, too?” Do not do so to Yahweh your Elohim? For every abomination which Yahweh hates, they have done to their mighty ones.

 

For they even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their mighty ones, or burn their daughters and sons in the fire to their gods. Again, child sacrifice is something that Gentiles do. That’s a gentile practice. And we’re told not to do that. And we’re told not to do what the Gentiles do all over the place.

 

Here’s just another example. And again, let’s stack it up. Here is some more examples from scripture. Deuteronomy 18:9. When you come into the land which Yahweh, your Elohim, has given you, do not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

 

Do not learn to do according to the abominations of those Gentiles. Isaiah 34:2, “For the displeasure of Yahweh is against all the nations, all the Gentiles, and his wrath against all their divisions. He shall put them under the ban. He shall give them over to the slaughter. And finally, one more.

 

This comes from Jeremiah 10:2. And this is a famous passage, especially around the time of Christmas. But let’s get off the whole Christmas thing for just a minute and look at it just how it relates to us and Gentiles. But in Jeremiah 10:2, it says here, “Thus said Yahweh, do not learn the way of the nations. Do not learn the way of the Gentiles.

 

Do not learn the way of the heathen. Do not learn the way of the pagans. Do not learn the way of the goyim. And do not be dismayed by the signs of the heavens. For the nations are dismayed by them.

 

Once again, we’re told, “Do not learn the ways of the Gentiles.” And this is there’s we presented a bunch to you right here. It’s all been in rapid succession, but there’s a bunch more. It’s all over the Tanakh. Says, “Do not be like the Gentiles.

 

The Gentiles can come in. They can change their ways, but we are not to go after them and change our ways into those pagan, gentile, heathen ways.” And we could get off on a tangent explaining how various people that were outside of Israel, outside of covenant came into covenant. uh people such as Ruth, people such as Rahab the harlot, etc., etc., etc. So, even back in the Tanakh, there was a way to be grafted in and lots of people did do that.

 

We look at the Exodus from Israel, I’m sorry, the Exodus from Egypt. It talks about the Hebrews or Israel coming out of Egypt with a mixed multitude. What does that mean? That means people who were not Israeli, people who were not Hebrew. So even the Exodus from Egypt, even at the foot of Mount Sinai with the giving of the Torah, with the giving of the Ten Commandments, there was a mixed multitude.

 

It wasn’t just Hebrews. It was a bunch of different people even then. And what did they say at the foot of the mountain? Whatever you say, Yahweh, we will do. All of them.

 

They were all the people of Yahweh. Even though they weren’t all the same blood, they weren’t all Hebrews. So yeah, that’s let’s not get off on a tangent. So that is the word goy. And the vast majority of the time when the word goy is used, it’s generally used of a people group that is not in covenant with Yahweh.

 

People who are pagan but don’t have to be pagan. They could be atheist, I guess. So that’s how goy is generally used when it is used in the Tanakh and that’s the word that we get our word gentile or is translated into the word gentile. 

Israel as ‘goy’?

However, there are a few rare instances where the nation of Israel or the Israelis are referred to as goy. Here in Genesis 12:2 this is Yahweh speaking to Abram.

 

He says here, “And I shall make you a great nation and bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing.” Here it is using the word goy. Now the vast majority of time when this word is referring to people outside of covenant with Yahweh, it’s in the plural goyim. But generally when it’s referring to Israel, it’s used in the singular. I did not have time to track down the significance of that, but just take note as you go through here, put that in your notes and look for it when you go through your own studies.

 

But when the word and the the very few rare instances that is used of Israel, it’s always used in the um or it’s generally used in the singular, not the plural. Plural is used for people outside of Israel. And here in the ECB translation actually has the word goy again trying to transliterate the Hebrew word. But if you’ll look from the Westminster Leningrad Codex if you can understand Hebrew I put it up there for you. That second word right there lagoy that’s in that’s in the singular.

 

That lamed is a preposition. It’s not actually part of the main word but that is the singular. Goyim is the plural. Another instance where Israel is referred to as goy. This comes from Genesis chapter 18 verse 18.

 

Since Abraham is certainly going to become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. And here that first instance where it has nation in the singular that is the word goy. And again, it’s referring to the Israel, the Hebrews, uh, whatever you want to call it, but the word is used in that in instance of the descendants of Abraham. Then it’s got the plural nations. And here it’s got not goyim, but you’ll see here again from the Westminster Leningrad Codex, it has goye.

 

So, it’s a little bit different. goye is not goyim but still it’s in a plural kind of construct and then going on looking at Genesis 35 11 and Elohim said to him I am El Shaddai be fruitful and increase a nation and a company of nations shall be from you and sovereigns come from your body and once again the first instance here for nation it has the word goy in Hebrew in the singular. And then the second instance whereas the word nations is the plural goyim. Then again we look at some other verses and we look in Exodus 19:6. And you shall be to me a reign of priests and a set apart or holy nation.

 

Those are the words which you are to speak to the children of Israel. Here the word goy is again used in reference to Israel. And we look at Deuteronomy 4 6-7. And you shall guard and do them. And for for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they shall say, “Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation?

 

For what great nation is there which has Elohim so near to it, as Yahweh our Elohim is to us whenever we call on him?” Now here again, this is another one of those rare instances where the word goy is in reference to the nation of Israel. Now, there’s another word here we’ll get to coming up, but this is the word for peoples. And commonly when it’s referring to the group of Yahweh’s people, the Israelis, the Hebrews, whatever you want to call it, those who are within covenant uh with Yahweh, it’s referred to them as peoples instead of goy. But we’re going through right now some of the rare instances where goy is used of Israel.

 

And finally from Deuteronomy 26:5, “And you shall answer and say before Yahweh your Elohim, my father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and sojourned there with few men. And there he became a great nation, great, mighty, and numerous.” And once again, this word goy is used in reference to the nation of Israel or to the Hebrew people. And again, it’s very very rare that goy is used of Israel. Only about uh I’d estimate only about eight or 10 times in the entire Tanakh.

 

Only about eight or 10 times. And think about how many times that word is used in general. It’s going to be not even a drop in the bucket that it refers to Israel. The vast majority of the time when I’m sorry, goy is used in this Tanakh, it’s referring to people outside of covenant with Yahweh, the unbelievers as it were. And that’s the word we get our word gentile from.

 

Whereas translated a lot of times into our word gentile, but it’s got the same meaning. goy or gentile still means the vast majority of the time still means someone who is an unbeliever and is not in covenant with Yahweh. Now let’s switch gears just a little bit and look at this second word that we have highlighted here. This is the word for peoples. And when Israel is referred to as a group, as a people group, when we’re referring to in this Tanakh, the people of Yahweh, those who are in covenant with Yahweh, it’s generally referred to as peoples.

 

And the Hebrew word here is the Hebrew word am and that’s Strong’s H5971 am. And the outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.org has it as a multitude whether of men or beasts associated or living together. A multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus, a tribe, nation, people group in the Old Testament, foreign nations not worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles, that’s what they’re defining ethnos as. And Paul uses the term for Gentile Christians, but that is actually up for debate. Strong’s definition uh for ethnos defines it as a race as of the same habit a tribe especially a foreign non-Jewish one usually by implication pagan gentile heathen nation people etc etc and once again gentile or unbeliever they don’t have to be pagans but a lot of times they tend to be especially within scripture then look at the Thayer’s greek lexicon for ethnos as it defined as a multitude, whether of men or a beasts, associated or living together, a company, troop, swarm.

 

Number two, a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus. Number three, a race or nation used in the singular of the Jewish people. But again, understand how they’re flattening that out, conflating Jewish people with the Hebrew lineage or Hebrew people. And again in the singular just like goy was in comparison to goyim. Then number four for Thayer’s has defined as foreign nations not worshipping the true god pagans gentiles and very often plain contradistinction to the Jews.

 

And number five Paul uses ethnos even of gentile Christians. But again that is an oxymoron to say someone is a gentile Christian and Paul’s usage is up for debate. And from Mounce’s definition for ethnos has it defined as gentile meaning or pagan foreign nation a people. Here is your Liddell Scott Jones definition and the Abbott Smith manual. Greek lexicon of the New Testament entry for ethnos.

 

Pretty much going along the same lines as we’ve already looked at. Greek English lexicon of the New Testament for ethnos has it defined as pertaining to one who is not a Jew, a gentile, heathen, pagan. Once again, they’re flattening out and uh conflating Jew with Hebrew. And again, it’s all within context here. And then finally, here is your BDAG entry on ethnos as well.

 

And pretty much going along the same lines as we saw in the previous lexicons and dictionaries. And again, these expanded entries are in the notes. So, if you want even more information from these particular lexicons and dictionaries, go check out the notes on our website. Click on the link down below for an easy way to get there. But now, let’s get into some scriptures uh using ethnos, the Greek word ethnos as that’s commonly translated into the word gentile that we have nowadays.

 

And here are some distinctions that the scriptures make in the Brit Hadasha between the people of Yahweh, those that are righteous, that are faithful, the believers, and those who are ethnos, those who are gentiles, pagan, heathens, the unbelievers. It makes distinctions between us and Gentiles. We look in Acts 4:27-28. For truly in the city there were gathered together against your set apart servant Yeshua, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the nations and the people of Israel to do whatever your hand and your purpose decided before to be done. You catch that distinction?

 

It it grouped all together Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the nations and the people of Israel. So you got like three different people groups there with the Gentiles aka the nations and being distinct from the people of Israel. Then we look at Acts chapter 7 verse 45 which our fathers having received it in turn also brought with Yahushua into the land possessed by the nations where Elohim drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David. So here it says that you’re talking about Yehoshua and of course the people going into the land and the land is possessed by not the Hebrews who are going into the land. Instead the distinction is made that the land is possessed by the Gentiles.

 

Again making the distinction between the people of Yahweh and the Gentiles. And then we look at Romans chapter 9 6-7. However, it is not as though the word of Elohim has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel. Neither are they all children because they are of the seed of Abraham.

 

But in Isaac your seed shall be called. So here it’s saying, you probably already know this by now, but it bears repeating. He’s saying that not all Israel who are of Israel, they are not all Israel who are of Israel. meaning that even though they may be genetically descended from Abraham, from the Hebrews, from etc, etc., even though they may have Israeli blood in them, that doesn’t mean that they are part of the true and holy and spiritual Israel. That’s what it’s meaning right there.

 

But other people can be grafted in. There are ways to do that. And those who are of the seed of Abraham are heirs according to the promise. And just because you are seed of Abraham doesn’t mean you are righteous and that you’re going to get into heaven. It’s not about genetics.

 

It’s about faith in Yeshua. Went on looking at Romans chapter 9 6-7. However, it is not as though the word of Elohim is failed. Oh, we just read that. Sorry.

 

But looking at Romans 10 12-13 because there is no distinction between Yehudi and Greek. For the same master of all is rich to all those calling upon him. for everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh shall be saved. So here again talking about the Jews or Judeans and Greeks because at the time it wasn’t talking about you know just the tribe of Judah in the Brit Hadasha generally what I found is that Yehudi or Jew is referring to the southern kingdom of Judea. That’s why I like to make the distinction to be, you know, specific and say Judean.

 

But he says there is no distinction between Judean and Greek because we’re all one in Yeshua. We can come together even if we are not born from the same bloodline. We can still come together and we’re all one. We’re all equal. I just thought that was important to reiterate and put out there for everyone.

 

Now, when talking about the distinction between gentile and believer and the modern definition of what people think that gentile actually means, pay attention to this next passage here. We look at Romans 11 17-24. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive tree, have been grafted in among them, and came to share the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. And if you boast, remember, you do not bear the root, but the root bears you. You shall say, then, “The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”

 

Good. By unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by belief. Do not be arrogant, but fear. For if Elohim did not spare the natural branches, he might not spare you either. See then the kindness and sharpness of Elohim on those who fell sharpness but toward you kindness.

 

If you continue in his kindness, otherwise you shall you also shall be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in. For Elohim is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree, which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature, into a good olive tree, how much more shall those who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? Beautiful passage, beautiful illustration of how those who are not genetically Israel are grafted in because those of us who are from a gentile background, part of the wild olive tree and were broken off or removed from that wild olive tree and then grafted into that good olive tree.

 

Now, what is that good olive tree? That is the true faith, the belief, the true Israel, as it were. We’re grafted in. We’re not separate from what was. We’re not a separate plant.

 

We’re actually part of that same plant, part of that same belief. And we should conform ourselves to that belief, not stand on our old rough, incorrect ways. But we’ll get more in that in the thought experiment. But yeah, it’s it’s beautiful how he illustrates this whole process here. And like I said, take note that it’s going to be grafted into the good olive tree and it’s still the one singular olive tree, not two different olive trees, not multiple different olive trees or different plants.

 

It’s still one plant, one olive tree. In this illustration, let’s look at the Brit Hadasha and how it describes gentile as a negative thing and how you don’t want to be a gentile from 1 Corinthians 10 20. No, but what the nations slaughter, they slaughter to demons and not to Elohim. And I do not wish you to become sharers with demons.

 

So just like we looked at some of those passages within the Tanakh, we see here that Paul is writing in to the Corinthians saying that this is what the nations do. This is what the pagans do. This is what the Gentiles do. This is what the heathens do. And I do not want you to be partakers and sharers with those kind of practices which are practices that are demonic in nature.

 

Paul is telling us, “Do not be like the Gentiles.” Again, drawing that distinction between us, the believers, and the unbelievers, the aka Gentiles. Paul goes on to make an even more powerful statement about Gentiles here in 1 Corinthians 12:2. You know that you were nations led away to the dumb idols even as you might be led. Listen very very carefully what he says here especially in this very first part.

 

He says that you know that you were nations, that you were pagans, that you were Gentiles, that you were heathen, that you were goyim that you were unbelievers. What is that word were there in that sentence? This is getting nerdy again, but the word were is the English word and it’s a past tense conjugation of the verb to be. It’s something that you used to be but are no longer. Getting that he’s not saying that you are still Gentiles and it’s okay to do Gentile things.

 

No. No. Paul is saying to the apostle to the Gentiles is saying that you were Gentiles but you are no longer and he doesn’t want you to be led away to dumb idols even as you might be led. But it’s very impactful there that very first part where it says that you were nations. Again going along that same point of how we are the believers and the Gentiles, the others are the unbelievers. And here he’s saying that you used to be unbelievers but now you’re a believer.

 

You used to be Gentiles and now you’re not Gentiles. See how that works? So we who are in the faith are not Gentiles. Paul says that we were but now we’re not. So that’s just a little bit from the Brit Hadasha about the distinctions between us the believers and the Gentiles aka the unbelievers.

 

There’s a whole whole slew of passages and verses you can look at and there’s a whole bunch more in the notes. 

In Yeshua’s Own Words

Well, let’s go on for sake of time and look at Yeshua and how he referenced Gentiles when he was speaking to people in Matthew 6 7-8. Yeshua says, “And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the nations. Do not keep on babbling like the Gentiles. Do not keep on babbling like the pagans.

 

Do not keep on babbling like the nations. For they think that they shall be heard for the many words. Therefore, do not be like them, for your father knows what you need before you ask him. So here Yeshua is telling us, don’t do like those Gentiles. Instead, do this like a believer should do.

 

Then in Matthew 6 31-32, do not worry then, saying, “What shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? For all these the nations seek for, for all these the pagans seek for. For all these the Gentiles seek for. For all these the heathens seek for. And your heavenly father knows that you need all these.

 

So again, Yeshua is making a distinction between the Gentiles and the believers. Here he’s saying that the Gentiles are worrying about all these various everyday things. They’re upset and they’re anxious about it. He says that’s what the Gentiles, the unbelievers do. But the believers instead in contrast should not do that.

 

And finally, let’s look at the third one here. Yeshua in Mark 10:42-43 states, “And Yeshua calling them near said to them, you know that those who think to rule the nations are masters over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it is not so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant.” But here he’s talking about again a distinction between the Gentiles, the unbelievers and the believers. He call he describes the leadership style of the Gentiles, the leadership style of the unbelievers.

And he contrasts that with the leadership style that should be done by the believers, the servant leadership style. So again, not only does the Tanakh make a distinction between believers and Gentiles, but also the Brit Hadasha and our Messiah Yeshua makes a distinction time and time and time again between those who are the people of Yahweh, the believers, and those who are unbelievers that we refer to as Gentiles. 

Logic & Reasoning

Now, let’s do a thought experiment and look at some logic and reasoning. Very little of any philosophy is going to be here in this one. I promise.

I’ve heard some of you talk about that. And uh yeah, some of you like it, some of you don’t. But that’s okay. First and foremost, if the breakdown in the Bible is as it is traditionally or the way it is nowadays taught and is nothing more than an ethnic racial difference between Jew and non-Jew, meaning Gentile, that’s the modern definition. Then how is Paul even able to say that you were gentile?

Well, he can’t. Race, ethnicity isn’t something that you can change. There is no past tense of the verb when it comes to your ethnicity or your race. Think about it. If you are of African descent, you can’t change that.

You’re always going to be dark skin. You’re always going to be of eth or I’m sorry, of African descent. is Paul would never be able to say you were African descent. No. No.

It’s it’s not an ethnic thing. It’s not a racial thing. It’s a matter of the mind as we’ve already seen about coming coming into covenant. Another thing to ponder, the gentile represents the prodigal collective of humanity. Think about it like this.

When the earth was created, there was Adam and Eve. And there was one people and they were all faithful to Yahweh and then they the fall happened and then people left covenant. They were unbelievers and they created all this paganism etc etc and that goes right along with the story that Yeshua told us about the prodigal son going away. So the gentiles are like the prodigal son and there is ways for the gentiles to come back into faith and stop being gentiles and become believers.

That happened in but happened even more so ever since the time of the so again gentile represent or I’m sorry gentile means someone who is not a believer and gentile represents the prodigal collective of humanity. those who are not believers, those who are out of covenant. To suggest that Gentile is free from the Torah is to suggest that they are free from the definitions and the standards of righteousness that is provided to us by Yahweh, our heavenly father. Again, they try to in modern definitions, they try to say that, oh, we’re Gentiles. We’re not Jews.

We’re Gentiles. Well, even though they’re trying to say at the same time they’re Christians or Messianic, and this is false, but in this sense, they also say that we’re free from the Torah and by doing so, they suggest that we are free from the definitions of righteousness that’s provided to us that we should live by and guide our lives by. But as we know, that is just simply not true. And they again they using this whole false definition of gentile to get away with doing things that they should not be doing and getting away from the things that the scriptures are telling us to do. Another point, Yahweh did not give the Israelites one set of rules and the mixed multitude another.

They all entered the same covenant together. Go back in Exodus, read that passage there. When they all come to the foot of Mount Sinai, there was the Hebrews and there was the mixed multitude. And they all said, “We will do what you say.” And they were all the people of Yahweh, not just the genetic bloodline of the Hebrews.

They were all the people of Yahweh. Therefore, there wasn’t a single Gentile there at the foot of Sinai. So think about that went on another point when a person moves to a new country and they gain citizenship to that particular country they don’t bring in their old laws their old ways of doing things with them they learn the laws of the new land they don’t say because I am a new citizen because I come from a different country the old laws of this country are canceled and we’re going to do the laws of my old country. No that’s false. That’s not the way the world works.

And the same thing applies with Gentiles. When Gentiles come into the faith, when Gentiles stop being Gentiles and become believers, they are to learn the ways of the new kingdom that they become a citizen of the kingdom of Yahweh. And what are the laws and regulations and instructions of the kingdom of Yahweh? The Bible. It’s the Torah.

Go check it out if you’re going to be a believer. That’s the laws and rules and regulations that we are guided by and that we are judged by. Another point, when a wife joins a family or even when a child is adopted into a family, they are bound by the traditions and the rules of that family or that household. They don’t replace the family. They don’t replace the family rules or the family traditions or anything like that.

Instead, they expand the family. And that’s the same thing that Gentiles do. When Gentiles change their ways and they become believers instead of Gentiles, they expand the family in the kingdom of Yahweh. Another point, when the Gentiles join the orchestra, they don’t bring their own sheet music or play whatever they want. They pick up the same scores so that the entire orchestra plays in harmony.

These are all analogies, but this is a beautiful one to describe how Gentiles come into the faith when they stop being Gentiles. If a musician joins an orchestra and they try to play a piece of music that the orchestra is not playing, it sounds horrid. It really does. When I was playing with a band way back when, people would get their music mixed up sometimes and they would think they were supposed to be played this music when the conductor was actually saying, “Hey, we’re going to play this piece of music.” And immediately, almost immediately, when it started off, you knew something was wrong because it sounded absolutely horrible.

And it’s the same thing with Gentiles. when they start being believers and stop being Gentiles, they need to play the same music that the rest of the orchestra, the rest of the kingdom of Yahweh is playing, or else it’s not going to work. It’s not going to be very good. It’s going to be all kinds of chaos as we’ve seen nowadays with a lot of various groups. But don’t get on soap box right now.

And finally, I’m sorry, another point. A branch grafted in is not a separate plant. It’s part of the main plant. The same the same plant. The gentile is a branch from a wild tree that is grafted into a cultivated ancient tree.

The good olive tree. The branch does not change the root. The branch does not change the olive tree. It the root changes the nature of the branch. In the metaphor there, we saw that directly from scripture.

It’s like the this is a much more to the point on then nose description of Gentiles coming into the faith and Gentiles leaving behind their gentile past and instead becoming believers. It’s like the the difference between a or explained like this. It’s like the difference between race and membership. Once again, you cannot change your race, but you can change your membership to different organization. You used to be a member of the gentile organization.

Now you can be a gentile or I’m sorry. Now you can be a member of Yahweh’s organization, a member of Yahweh’s people. Again, you can’t change your race, but you can change your attitude, which we should when we come into the faith, when we start becoming believers and stop being Gentiles. We should change our attitude. We should we also change our allegiance.

We can change our obedience. And again, that’s something we do when we stop being Gentiles and come into faith. We change our obedience from a lot of times ourselves to Yahweh. We also can change our way of doing things which again something we should do when we come into faith and come into believing. We should do the ways and the things of Yahweh were described in scripture.

We can change our membership. We used to be members of the Gentile organization. Now we’re members of Yahweh’s organization. And we change our identification. Used to we identified as the world.

Now we identify as part of Yahweh’s people. So that is that just hit me one day when I was going through this whole study and putting this whole teaching together and I think it actually comes down and it’s very pointed and on the nose. But yeah, there’s things that you can change, but there’s things you can’t change. And that proves that gentile is not about race. It’s not about ethnicity because you cannot change your race.

Cannot change your ethnicity. But you can change your beliefs. You can change your attitude, your allegiance, your membership, your identification, your way of doing things, etc., etc. And that is why Paul referred back in first Corinthians. That’s why Paul says that you were Gentiles.

Then that changed. You’re no longer Gentiles. You’re now believers. and now part of the people of Yahweh. 

Summary

So in summary, number one, the term Jew can mean a descendant of the tribe of Judah, someone from the line of the southern kingdom of Judea, or someone of the Jewish faith.

But remember, Judaism, the Jewish faith, did not start until the first century of the common era, or the 30th year of the common era, whatever you want to call it. It hasn’t been around for thousands of years. Exonym is a term to describe a people group outside of the referenced people group. So gentile is a exonym. It’s what we believers call unbelievers.

Just like we saw from scripture. The word gentile generally comes from the Hebrew word goy in this Tanakh. Israel is only referred to by the singular a minute number of times. And we saw that Israel is usually referred to as am as people as the people of Yahweh not goy. The word gentile generally comes from the Greek word ethnos in the Brit Hadasha.

We saw many examples of that and there’s many many more. The Brit Hadasha makes it clear that gentile is something that we used to be that we were but are no longer after coming to the faith. And the term gentile is used for those outside of covenant with Yahweh and is usually synonymous with heathen, pagan, unbeliever, or just a nation or group of people that are not Yahweh’s people. So to put it bluntly, you can either be a gentile or you can be a believer. You can be a Gentile or you can be a Christian.

You can be a Gentile or you can be a Messianic. Every how you want to phrase that. But you can’t be both. And that is just the God honest truth. So, thank you for joining us.

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