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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Whatever Yosef and Moshe did, that
wasn't good enough for Yitzhaq and Yaacov, who dafka had to marry
family. Locals were out. So my original point remains: For at
least some of the Avot, it wasn't simply patriarchal descent.<br>
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Ben<br>
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On 11/27/2015 11:07 PM, via Avodah wrote:<br>
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<div>Yosef and Moshe certainly converted their wives, but to
what? To monotheism and to membership in the Abrahamite tribe
-- not to Judaism, which didn't formally exist until the Torah
was given. At that point, every single Hebrew converted!</div>
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