The covenant between the people who left with Moses out of Egypt were the people that Jwh had a Covenant with. This is, in effect, a divine contract. And it is intrinsic to it that the divine contract is ABSOLUTE. It is ABSOLUTE because it is with God, Jwh.
You cannot play games with this contract, apply semantic shenanigans with it or artful manouevrings with it.
It is for this that in Leviticus, it is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN for these Israelites to marry outside of their blood kin. If my memory serves me, such was the disapproval of Jwh that to do so, the punishment was, shall we say, somewhat severe.
It had to be so in order to ensure the absolute purity and uncontamination by alien and unclean blood of the progeny of this divine contract between an Israelite and Jwh.
This therefore puts into serious question the lot of Kazharian convert Jews and Ethiopian Jews. Thank God, I do not have to sort this one out.
In passing, it is written in the Torah of the very naughty propensity and predeliction of the Israelites for females of other nations. Samson and Delilah was the most naughty of all the examples that one can think of. It was a problem that was never quite solved, not even by Moses when he was alive then.
And I believe that they are still at it. I believe that there is a term for such foreign women that Hebrews link with. It begins with the letter S. If they persist at it:
they themselves violate the Absolute Divine Contract with Jwh
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the Covenant!
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