Deut 23
1
He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter
into the assembly of YHWH.
2
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of YHWH; even to the tenth generation
shall none of his enter into the assembly of YHWH.
3
An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of YHWH; even to the tenth
generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of YHWH for ever:
4
because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth
out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor
of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
5
Nevertheless YHWH your God would not hearken to Balaam; but YHWH your God turned the
curse into a blessing to you, because YHWH your God loved you.
6
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever.
7
You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian,
because you were a sojourner in his land.
8
The children of the third generation that are born to them shall enter into the assembly
of YHWH.
9
When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every
evil thing.
10
If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chances 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 comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when
the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
12
You shall have a place also without the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:
13
and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down
abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from
you:
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for YHWH your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up
your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an
unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
15
You shall not deliver to his master a servant that is escaped from his master to you:
16
he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within
one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.
17
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a
sodomite of the sons of Israel.
18
You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of
YHWH your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to YHWH your God.
19
You shall not lend upon interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of victuals,
interest of anything that is lent upon interest:
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to a foreigner you may lend upon interest; but to your brother you shall not lend
upon interest, that YHWH your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to,
in the land where you go in to possess it.
21
When you shall vow a vow to YHWH your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for YHWH
your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
22
But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
23
That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have
vowed to YHWH your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth.
24
When you come into your neighbor`s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill
at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
25
When you come into your neighbor`s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with
your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor`s standing grain.