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 | | These in view of the rabbis, are bound by the Noachide commandments which the rabbis infer from Gen. 9 and which exclude idolatry, murder, theft, incest, roughly corresponding to the natural moral law. |
 | | Only when the potential convert persists in his search and insists on becoming a Jew is he circumcised (if male) and required to immerse himself in the Mikvah (ritual bath) from which, if he has committed himself to observance of the Torah, does he emerge as a full-fledged Jew. |
 | | Because all of humanity is obligated to live up to the demands of the Noachide covenant which follows the Flood as reported in Genesis, it would seem obvious that it is Israel’s task, as the people to whom the Torah was entrusted, to propagate knowledge of this covenant among the people. |
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