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Deuteronomy 23:6-19 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

12. You shall have a place beyond the camp to which you may go for the necessities of nature,

13. carrying a small shovel at your belt. And when you would sit down, you shall dig around, and then, with the soil that was dug up, you shall cover

14. that from which you were relieved. For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, in order to rescue you, and to deliver your enemies to you. And so, let your camp be holy, and let nothing filthy appear within it, lest he abandon you.

15. You shall not deliver a servant who has fled to you to his master.

16. He shall live with you in a place that pleases him, and he shall rest in one of your cities. You shall not grieve him.

17. There shall be no prostitutes among the daughters of Israel, nor anyone among the sons of Israel who visits a prostitute.

18. You shall not offer money from a prostitute, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord your God, no matter what you may have vowed. For both of these are an abomination with the Lord your God.

19. You shall not lend money, or grain, or anything else at all, to your brother at interest,

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