THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY

 

Deuteronomy Chapter 23

1 ¶ He that is wounded in the testicles, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation his descendants shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation their descendants shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

4 Because they did not meet you along the way with bread and water, when you came out of Egypt; and because they hired Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia against you, to curse you.

5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.

6 You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity as long as you live for ever.

7 You shall not detest an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not detest an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land.

8 The children that are begotten to them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

9 ¶ When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep away from every wicked thing.

10 If there is among you any man, who is not clean by reason of the uncleanness that happens to him by night, then he shall go outside of the camp, he shall not come inside the camp:

11 But when evening comes, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come back into the camp.

12 You shall have a place also outside the camp, where you shall go out to:

13 And you shall have a spade among your weapons; and it shall be, when you want to ease yourself out there, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes out of you:

14 For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to save you, and to deliver your enemies to you; therefore your camp shall be holy: so that he does not see any unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

15 ¶ You shall not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you:

16 He shall dwell with you, in your midst, where he chooses in one of your towns, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.

17 There shall be no prostitutes among the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite among the sons of Israel.

18 You shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest on money, interest on food, interest on any thing that is lent for interest:

20 You may lend to a stranger on interest; but you shall not lend to your brother on interest: that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land that you go to possess.

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

22 But if you refrain from vowing, it will not be a sin in you.

23 That vow which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and carry out; even a vow you have made to the LORD your God of your own freewill, which you have promised with your mouth.

24 When you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in a container.

25 When you go into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.