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Deuteronomy 23:1-13 World English Bible (WEB)

1. He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

2. A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

3. An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever;

4. because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

5. Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

6. You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

7. You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

8. The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

9. When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.

10. If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;

11. but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

12. You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.

13. You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;

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