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Deuteronomy 23:1 No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.	Deuteronomy 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 23:2 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.	Deuteronomy 23:2 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.
Deuteronomy 23:3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:	Deuteronomy 23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah for ever:
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.	Deuteronomy 23:4 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 from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
Deuteronomy 23:5 But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.	Deuteronomy 23:5 Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.
Deuteronomy 23:6 Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.	Deuteronomy 23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Deuteronomy 23:7 But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.	Deuteronomy 23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a sojourner in his land.
Deuteronomy 23:8 Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.	Deuteronomy 23:8 The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 23:9 When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.	Deuteronomy 23:9 When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.
Deuteronomy 23:10 If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it:	Deuteronomy 23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
Deuteronomy 23:11 But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.	Deuteronomy 23:11 but it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
Deuteronomy 23:12 Let there be a place outside the tent-circle to which you may go;	Deuteronomy 23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
Deuteronomy 23:13 And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from you be covered up with earth:	Deuteronomy 23:13 and thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
Deuteronomy 23:14 For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.	Deuteronomy 23:14 for Jehovah 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 may not see an unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
Deuteronomy 23:15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:	Deuteronomy 23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his master unto thee:
Deuteronomy 23:16 Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.	Deuteronomy 23:16 he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Deuteronomy 23:17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.	Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.	Deuteronomy 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 23:19 Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:	Deuteronomy 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest:
Deuteronomy 23:20 From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.	Deuteronomy 23:20 unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 23:21 When you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to give effect to it: for without doubt the Lord your God will make you responsible, and will put it to your account as sin.	Deuteronomy 23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it: for Jehovah thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23:22 But if you take no oath, there will be no sin.	Deuteronomy 23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23:23 Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.	Deuteronomy 23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto Jehovah thy God, a freewill-offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
Deuteronomy 23:24 When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.	Deuteronomy 23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, then thou mayest eat of grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
Deuteronomy 23:25 When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.	Deuteronomy 23:25 When thou comest into thy neighbor's standing grain, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing grain.