Deuteronomy 23

1 No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

2 No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

4 For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.

5 Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

6 You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.

7 Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

9 When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.

10 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

11 When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

12 You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.

13 And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

14 For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.

15 Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

16 Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

18 You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

19 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.

21 If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.

23 Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

24 When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

25 When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

1 ¶ He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member 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 shall he 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 shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he [is] thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

9 ¶ When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash [himself] with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp [again].

12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

15 ¶ Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

16 He shall dwell with thee, [even] among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

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

18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy vessel.

25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

1 There shall no man be cut off, nor cut off, in the congregation of the LORD. 2: Neither shall any whoremonger enter into the congregation of the LORD, even after the tenth generation; but shall not enter evil into the congregation of the LORD.

3 The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD, even after the tenth generation: they shall never enter in,

4 Because they prevented you not with bread and water in the way, when ye came out of Egypt, and hired Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia against you, to curse thee.

5 But the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, and changed thy curse into a blessing, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

6 Thou shalt not wish them happiness or good all thy days for ever.

7 Thou shalt not count the Edomite an abomination: he is thy brother. Neither shalt thou count the Egyptian an abomination: for thou hast been a stranger in his land.

8 The children which they beget in the third generation shall come into the congregation of the LORD.

9 When thou goest out of the camp against thine enemies, beware of all evil.

10 If there be any among thee that is not clean, and any thing hath befallen him in the night, let him go out of the camp, and let him not come in again,

11 Till he bathe himself in water before even. And when the sun is down, he shall go into the camp again.

12 And thou shalt have a place without the camp, where thou mayest go in time of need.

13 And thou shalt have a little shovel, and when thou sittest without, thou shalt dig therewith: and when thou hast sat down, thou shalt gather up that which is gone out of thee.

14 For the LORD thy God walketh among thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies before thee. Therefore let thy camp be holy, that no shame be seen among thee, and let him turn away from thee.

15 Thou shalt not deliver up a servant unto his master, who hath escaped from him unto thee.

16 He shall dwell with thee in the place which he shall choose within thy gates for his good; and thou shalt not oppress him.

17 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a fornicator among the sons of Israel.

18 Thou shalt not bring a whore's fee, nor a dog's fee, into the house of the LORD thy God, for any vow: for it is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

19 Thou shalt not usury thy brother, neither with money, nor with meat, nor with any thing to usury.

20 In the stranger thou mayest multiply, but not in thy brother: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou undertakest in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

21 If thou vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not forsake to keep it: for the LORD thy God shall require it of thee, and it shall be sin unto thee.

22 If thou let thy vows go by, it is no sin unto thee.

23 But that which went out to thy lips thou shalt keep, and do according to that which thou hast freely vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

24 When thou goest into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayest eat of the grapes according to thy will, until thou be full; but thou shalt not put any thing into thy vessel.

25 When thou goest into thy neighbour's seed, thou mayest pluck the ears of corn with thine hand; but with the sickle thou shalt not go to and fro within it.