1-3. God’s Message:“Guard my common good:Do what’s right and do it in the right way,For salvation is just around the corner,my setting-things-right is about to go into action.How blessed are you who enter into these things,you men and women who embrace them,Who keep Sabbath and don’t defile it,who watch your step and don’t do anything evil!Make sure no outsider who now follows Godever has occasion to say, ‘God put me in second-class.I don’t really belong.’And make sure no physically mutilated personis ever made to think, ‘I’m damaged goods.I don’t really belong.’”
4-5. For God says:“To the mutilated who keep my Sabbathsand choose what delights meand keep a firm grip on my covenant,I’ll provide them an honored placein my family and within my city,even more honored than that of sons and daughters.I’ll confer permanent honors on themthat will never be revoked.