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Green's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 23:2

An illegitimate child shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation none of his shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bastard;   Children;   Congregation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bastards;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Church of Israel;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bastard;   Citizenship;   Congregation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Bastards;   Harlot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bastard;   Covenant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Harlot;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Nature;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Congregation;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bastard;   Generation;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bastard;   Congregation;   Deuteronomy;   Harlot;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bastard;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eunuch;   Illegitimacy;   Medicine;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
"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 .
Update Bible Version
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
English Revised Version
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD.
New Century Version
No one born to parents who were forbidden by law to marry may come into the meeting to worship the Lord . The descendants for ten generations may not come in either.
New English Translation
A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord ; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Amplified Bible
"A person of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A child borun of hordom schal not entre in to the chirche of the Lord, `til to the tenthe generacioun.
Young's Literal Translation
a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Berean Standard Bible
No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
Contemporary English Version
No one born outside of a legal marriage, or any of their descendants for ten generations, can fully belong to the Lord 's people.
American Standard Version
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And a bastarde shall not come into the congregation of the Lorde: no not in the tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the Lorde.
Complete Jewish Bible
"A man with crushed or damaged private parts may not enter the assembly of Adonai .
Darby Translation
A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
If a man's parents were not legally married, that man may not join with the men of Israel to worship the Lord . And none of his descendants to the tenth generation—may join in that group.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
A bastard shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord: euen to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
New Life Bible
No one who was born to parents who were not married will go into the meeting of the Lord. And none of his children will go into the meeting of the Lord, even to the children's children of ten families in the future.
New Revised Standard
Those born of an illicit union shall not be admitted to the assembly of the Lord . Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A bastard shall not enter into the convocation of Yahweh, - even to the tenth generation, shall none of his enter into the convocation of Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A bastard shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lorde: euen to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
Neither shall a bastard enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation, his descendants shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.
Good News Translation
"No one born out of wedlock or any descendant of such a person, even in the tenth generation, may be included among the Lord 's people.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
Revised Standard Version
"No bastard shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
One born of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.
Christian Standard Bible®
No one of illegitimate birth may enter the Lord’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the Lord’s assembly.
Hebrew Names Version
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD.
King James Version
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 .
Lexham English Bible
An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants may come into the assembly of Yahweh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There shal no whores childe also come in to the cogregacion of ye LORDE, no not after ye tenth generacio, but shal neuer come in to ye cogregacio of ye LORDE.
THE MESSAGE
No bastard is to enter the congregation of God , even to the tenth generation, nor any of his children.
New American Standard Bible
"No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the assembly of the LORD.
New King James Version
"One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
New Living Translation
"If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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.
Legacy Standard Bible
No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation, none of his seed shall enter the assembly of Yahweh.

Contextual Overview

1 He being wounded, crushed, or cut in his male member shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah. 2 An illegitimate child shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation none of his shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah. 3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of them enter into the assembly of Jehovah, perpetually; 4 because they did not meet you with bread and with water in 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. 5 But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, and Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you. 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days, perpetually. 7 You shall not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not despise an Egyptian, for you were an alien in his land; 8 sons of the third generation that are born to them may enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 57:3, Zechariah 9:6, John 8:41, Hebrews 12:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:1 - shall not enter Deuteronomy 23:8 - third generation Judges 11:2 - thrust out Micah 2:5 - the congregation

Cross-References

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived among the oaks of Mamre, which were in Hebron; and he built an altar to Jehovah there.
Genesis 23:14
And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
Genesis 23:15
My lord, hear me; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? And bury your dead.
Genesis 23:16
And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels which passes with the merchant.
Genesis 23:18
to Abraham for a purchase before the sons of Heth, with all entering the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:19
And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre; it is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.
Genesis 50:10
And they came as far as the threshing floor of thorns, which is on the other side of the Jordan. And they mourned there with a great and very heavy mourning. And he made a lamentation for his father seven days.
Numbers 13:22
And they went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron. And Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were there. And Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
Numbers 20:29
And all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, and they mourned Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord,.... That is born of whoredom, as the Targum of Jonathan; and for the sake of avoiding whoredom and deterring from it was this law made, according to Maimonides h, that adulterers might see, as he observes, that they affect their whole family with an irreparable stain, should they commit such an infamous action; though the Jews commonly interpret it of one that is born of any of those incestuous copulations forbidden in Leviticus 18:1 which they gather from this following upon, and being near unto one of those incests mentioned in the last verse of the preceding chapter i; and it is a rule with them k, that persons born of such copulations were reckoned bastards; now such an one, according to Jarchi, might not marry an Israelitish woman, or rather might not be admitted into the assembly of elders, or bear any public office. Jephthah may seem to be an objection to this, who was the son of an harlot, Judges 11:1 which might be owing to the badness of the times, the laws of God being neglected, or to the providence of God so ordering it, who is not bound by his own laws, though men are; nor was he the son of a common harlot, nor of an incestuous person, but of his father's concubine; besides some think such only are intended who were born of strangers and not Israelites:

even unto his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord; which seems as if he might at the eleventh; but it is generally interpreted never, as is gathered from the following verse, and from the tenth number being an absolute and perfect one; yet according to the Jewish writers there were ways and means by which their posterity became legitimate; so they say, bastards may be purified (or legitimated), how? if one marries a servant maid, the child is a servant, who if he becomes free, (his) son is a free man l.

h Targum Jon. in loc. Misn. Yebamot, c. 8. sect. 2, 4, 5, 6. Maimon. Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 49. i Bartenora in Misn. Kiddushin, c. 3. sect. 12. k Misn. Kiddushin, c. 3. sect. 12. & Misn. Yebamot, c. 4. sect. 13. Jarchi & Aben Ezra in loc. l Misn. Kiddushin, c. 3. sect. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A bastard - Probably, a child born of incest or adultery.

Even to his tenth generation - i. e. (see the next verse and Nehemiah 13:1), forever. Ten is the number of perfection and completeness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 23:2. A bastard shall not enter — ממזר mamzer, which is here rendered bastard, should be understood as implying the offspring of an illegitimate or incestuous mixture.


 
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