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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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 sojourner in his land.
8 The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into
the assembly of Jehovah.
9 When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee
from every evil thing.
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:
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.
12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth
abroad:
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:
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.
15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his
master unto thee:
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.
17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there
be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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.
19 Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest
of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest:
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.
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.
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 observe and do; according as
thou hast vowed unto Jehovah thy God, a freewill-offering, which thou hast
promised with thy mouth.
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.
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.