Deuteronomy 23

Exclusion from the Congregation

(1) He who is wounded in the testicles, or has his male organ cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

(2) A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation his descendants shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

(3) An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation they shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever.

(4) Because they did not meet YOU with bread and with water on the road, when YOU came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

(5) Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.

(6) You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

(7) You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.

(8) The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Uncleanness in the Camp

(9) When the army goes forth against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

(10) If there is among YOU any man, who is not clean by reason of an accident happening to him at night, then he shall go outside of the camp; he shall not come into the camp.

(11) But it shall be, when evening comes, he shall wash himself with water, and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

(12) You shall also have a place outside the camp, where you shall go out;

(13) And you shall have a spade with your weapons; it shall be, when you will ease yourself out, you shalt dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you.

(14) For 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 shall be holy, so that he sees no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.

Laws On Fugitive Servants

(15) You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you.

(16) He shall dwell with you, among YOU, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where he likes best; you shall not oppress him.

Filthiness, Abominable Sacrifices, Usury, Vows

(17) There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

(18) You shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

(19) You shall not lend with interest to your brother: interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent with interest.

(20) To a foreigner you may lend with interest, but to your brother you shall not lend with interest; that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land where you go to possess it.

(21) When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.

(22) But if you shall abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you.

(23) That which is gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; a freewill offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

(24) When you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.

Trespasses

(25) When you go into the standing corn of your neighbor, then you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not move a sickle on your neighbor’s standing corn.

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