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Persons Excluded from the Assembly

¹ "^(C1)No one who is ^(F1)emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.² "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.³ "^(C1)No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the LORD,^4 (C1)because they did not meet you with ^(F1)food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you ^(C2)Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ^(F2)Mesopotamia, to curse you.⁵ "Nevertheless, the LORD your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God ^(C1)turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God ^(C2)loves you.⁶ "^(C1)You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

⁷ "You shall not detest an Edomite, for ^(C1)he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, ^(C2)because you were an alien in his land.⁸ "The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

⁹ "When you go out as ^(F1)an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

¹⁰ "^(C1)If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not ^(F1)reenter the camp.¹¹ "But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may ^(F1)reenter the camp.

¹² "You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there,¹³ and you shall have a ^(F1)spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn ^(F2)to cover up your excrement.¹⁴ "Since ^(C1)the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to ^(F1)defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be ^(C2)holy; and He must not see ^(F2)anything indecent among you ^(F3)or He will turn away from you.

¹⁵ "^(C1)You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has ^(F1)escaped from his master to you.¹⁶ "He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your ^(F1)towns where it pleases him; ^(C1)you shall not mistreat him.

¹⁷ "^(C1)None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, ^(C2)nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.¹⁸ "You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a ^(F1)(C1)dog into the house of the LORD your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

¹⁹ "^(C1)You shall not charge interest to your ^(F1)countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.²⁰ "^(C1)You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your ^(F1)countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that ^(C2)the LORD your God may bless you in all ^(F2)that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to ^(F3)possess.

²¹ "^(C1)When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, ^(F1)and the LORD your God will surely require it of you.²² "However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you.²³ "You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have ^(F1)promised.

²⁴ "When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat grapes ^(F1)until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your ^(F2)basket.

²⁵ "^(C1)When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.