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Deuteronomy 23:12-21 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

12. Choose a place outside the camp where you can go to the toilet.

13. Keep a shovel among your tools. When you go to the toilet, dig a hole. Then cover up your waste.

14. The Lord your God walks around in your camp. He's there to keep you safe. He's also there to hand your enemies over to you. So your camp must be holy. Then he won't see anything among you that is shameful. He won't turn away from you.

15. If a slave comes to you for safety, don't hand him over to his master.

16. Let him live among you anywhere he wants to. Let him live in any town he chooses. Don't crush him.

17. A man or woman in Israel must not become a temple prostitute.

18. The Lord your God hates the money that men and women get for being prostitutes. So don't take that money into the house of the Lord to pay what you promised to give.

19. Don't charge your own people any interest. Don't charge them when they borrow money, food or anything else.

20. You can charge interest to people from another country. But don't charge your own people. Then the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do. He will bless you in the land you are entering to take as your own.

21. Don't put off giving to the Lord your God everything you promise him. He will certainly require it from you. And you will be guilty of committing a sin.

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