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25 verses

Deuteronomy Chapter 23

¹He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of ForeverOne.

²A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of ForeverOne; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of ForeverOne.

³An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of ForeverOne; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of ForeverOne forever: ⁴because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came here out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

⁵Nevertheless ForeverOne your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but ForeverOne your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because ForeverOne your God loved you.

⁶You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

⁷You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

⁸The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of ForeverOne.

⁹When you go out to camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.

¹⁰If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what happens to him by night, then he shall go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp, ¹¹but when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

¹²You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall relieve yourself.

¹³You shall have a trowel among your weapons; and when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement; ¹⁴for ForeverOne your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

¹⁵You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you: ¹⁶he 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.

¹⁷There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

¹⁸You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of ForeverOne your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to ForeverOne your God.

¹⁹You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: ²⁰to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that ForeverOne your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

²¹When you shall vow a vow to ForeverOne your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for ForeverOne your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

²²But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

²³What has gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to ForeverOne your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

²⁴When you enter 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.

²⁵When you enter 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.