OLD TESTAMENT

Zechariah 8:23

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The LORD of Armies says: “In those days, ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

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Verse 23. Ten men, and so forth Many of the Gentiles became proselytes to the Jewish religion before Christ; but many more were converted to Christ by the apostles and other preachers of the Jewish nation. Challoner.—Skirt, or hem, by which the Jews were distinguished. Numbers 15:38. Matthew 9:20. Calmet.

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