Deuteronomy 23
Persons Excluded from the Assembly
1 a“No one who is ▼▼ Lit wounded by crushing of testicles
emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. 2“No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord. 3 c“No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the Lord, 4 dbecause they did not meet you with ▼▼ Lit bread
food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you fBalaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ▼▼ Heb Aram-naharaim
Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5“Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God hturned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God iloves you. 6 j“You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days. 7“You shall not detest an Edomite, for khe is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, lbecause you were an alien in his land. 8“The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. 9“When you go out as ▼▼ Or a camp
an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing. 10 n“If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not ▼▼ Lit come to the midst of
reenter the camp. 11“But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may ▼▼ Lit come to the midst of
reenter the camp. 12“You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there, 13and you shall have a ▼▼ Lit peg
spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn ▼▼ Lit and
to cover up your excrement. 14“Since sthe Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to ▼▼ Lit give
defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be uholy; and He must not see ▼▼ Lit nakedness of anything
anything indecent among you ▼▼ Lit and
or He will turn away from you. 15 x“You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has ▼▼ Lit delivered himself
escaped from his master to you. 16“He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your ▼▼ Lit gates
towns where it pleases him; aayou shall not mistreat him. 17 ab“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, acnor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute. 18“You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a ▼▼ I.e. male prostitute, sodomite
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aedog into the house of the Lord your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. 19 af“You shall not charge interest to your ▼▼ Lit brother
countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest. 20 ah“You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your ▼▼ Lit brother
countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that ajthe Lord your God may bless you in all ▼▼ Lit the putting forth of your hand
that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to ▼▼ Lit possess it
possess. 21 am“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, ▼▼ Lit for
and the Lord your God will surely require it of you. 22“However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you. 23“You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God, what you have ▼▼ Lit spoken with your mouth
promised. 24“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes ▼▼ Lit according to your satisfaction of your soul
until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your ▼▼ Or vessel
basket. 25 ar“When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain.
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