“He who has been castrated by having his testicles crushed or his male organ cut off shall not enter the congregation of the LORD.
“You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother [Esau’s descendant]. You shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were a stranger (resident alien, foreigner) in his land.
“When you go out as an army [to fight] against your enemies, you shall keep yourselves from every evil [thing].
“If there is any man among you who is [ceremonially] unclean because of nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he shall not come back to the camp.
“You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.
“There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.
“You shall not charge interest to your fellow Israelite—interest on money, food or anything that may be loaned for interest.
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