It is against our LAW for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile

[tonychanyt]

Peter said to the Gentiles gathered at Cornelius’s House in Acts 10:

28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.

Where can we find the wording of this law?

Nowhere. Barnes' Notes on the Bible:

It is an unlawful thing - This was not explicitly enjoined by Moses, but it seemed to be implied in his institutions, and was, at any rate, the common understanding of the Jews. The design was to keep them a separate people. To do this, Moses forbade alliances by contract, or marriage, with the surrounding nations, which were idolatrous. See Leviticus 18:24-30; Deuteronomy 7:3-12; compare Ezra 9:11-12. This command the Jews perverted, and explained it as referring to contact of all kinds, even to the exercise of friendly offices and commercial transactions.

Vincent's Word Studies:

An unlawful thing (ἀθέμιτον)
The word is peculiar to Peter, being used only here and 1 Peter 4:3. See note there. It emphasizes the violation of established order, being from the same root as τίθημι, to lay down or establish. The Jews professed to ground this prohibition on the law of Moses; but there is no direct command in the Mosaic law forbidding Jews to associate with those of other nations. But Peter's statement is general, referring to the general practice of the Jews to separate themselves in common life from uncircumcised persons. Juvenal says that the Jews were taught by Moses "not to show the way except to one who practises the same rites, and to guide the circumcised alone to the well which they seek" (Sat., xiv., 104, 105). Tacitus also says of the Jews that "among themselves they are inflexibly faithful, and ready with charitable aid, but hate all others as enemies. They keep separate from all strangers in eating, sleeping, and matrimonial connections" ("Histories," v., 5).

English Standard Version:

And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

It was not a written law by Moses but a common Jewish practice. The Gentiles knew about it and wrote about it.

On the other hand, Jesus didn't think twice to visit a Gentile centurion in Luke 7:

2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.” 6 So Jesus went with them.

 

[Laureate]

Peter said to the Gentiles gathered at Cornelius’s House in Acts 10:


Where can we find the wording of this law?

Nowhere. Barnes' Notes on the Bible:


Vincent's Word Studies:


English Standard Version:


It was not a written law by Moses but a common Jewish practice. The Gentiles knew about it and wrote about it.

On the other hand, Jesus didn't think twice to visit a Gentile centurion in Luke 7:

The verbiage of the ESV appears fine when emphasis is placed on the word ….HOW…, as in The Manner in Which (it is Unlawful), this is most likely what was conveyed (and appropriately true), and yet was misconstrued to mean having no relations whatsoever with anyone who is not a Jew.

For it is not lawful to eat an animal that had been shredded by a beast, or had not been properly slain, but one could sell such an animal to a stranger/foreigner.

Yet I believe the point of contention lies with a Jew being willing to defeat the purpose of his divine calling to reconcile the Fatherless/Widow with their Father/Husband.

The problem still exists today, for once a Gentile Converts to the Jewish Faith, they should No Longer be deemed Gentiles, as it is done today, this is a gross error.