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Deuteronomy 23:1-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. "A eunuch, one whose testicles have been debilitated or cut off, or whose penis has been cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

2. The offspring of a harlot, that is, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

3. The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord forever,

4. because they were not willing to meet you with bread and water along the way, when you had departed from Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, in order to curse you.

5. But the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he turned his cursing into your blessing, because he loves you.

6. You shall not make peace with them, nor shall you seek their prosperity, throughout all the days of your life forever.

7. You shall not abhor anyone from Idumea, for he is your brother, nor the Egyptian, for you were a new arrival in his land.

8. Those who have been born of them, in the third generation, shall enter into the church of the Lord.

9. When you have gone out to war against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from everything that is evil.

10. If there is a man among you who has been defiled by a dream in the night, he shall depart from the camp.

11. And he shall not return before the evening, after he has washed with water, and then, after the sun sets, he shall return to the camp.

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