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Deuteronomy 23:1-11 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

1. He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.

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

3. An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of the Lord for ever:

4. because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

5. Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

6. Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

7. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

8. The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.

9. When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.

10. If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

11. but it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water: and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

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