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Deuteronomy 23 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Those Excluded from the Assembly

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:1 - “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:2 - “No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:3 - “No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 - because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:6 - You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 - “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:8 - Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Uncleanness in the Camp

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 - “When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 - “If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11 - but when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12 - “You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:13 - And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

Miscellaneous Laws

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:15 - “You shall not give up to his master a slave[fn] who has escaped from his master to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:17 - “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog[fn] into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:19 - “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:21 - “If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:24 - “If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:25 - If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.
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ESV Footnotes
Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)
Or male prostitute
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Deuteronomy Chapter 23 — Additional Translations:

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