Deuteronomychapter 23
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A.Who may enter the assembly of the LORDvv. 1-8
1 No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD. 2 No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation. 3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation. 4 For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you. 5 Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you. 6 You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live. 7 Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. 8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
B.Keep the camp clean — he walks in itvv. 9-14
9 When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing. 10 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside. 11 When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp. 12 You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself. 13 And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
C.No runaway betrayed, no hire of a harlotvv. 15-18
15 Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you. 16 Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him. 17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute. 18 You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
D.No interest from a brother; pay what you vowedvv. 19-23
19 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. 20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess. 21 If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin. 23 Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
E.Eat your fill, but fill no basketvv. 24-25
24 When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket. 25 When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Chapter summary
The assembly, the camp's purity, and various laws.
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Chapter summary
The assembly, the camp's purity, and various laws.
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The assembly, the camp's purity, and various laws. Castrated and bastards barred from the assembly of the LORD; Ammonite and Moabite to the tenth generation; Edomite and Egyptian admitted in the third generation. The camp must be kept clean. A place outside for nature, a paddle on the weapon to cover it: ‘for the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp’. The escaped slave finds asylum. No harlots, no sodomites, no usury to a brother. Vows to be paid promptly. Eating freely in a neighbour's vineyard or cornfield as you pass through, but not filling a vessel or putting a sickle to his grain.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Law · Moses — Deuteronomy overview
- A. 1–8 Who may enter the assembly of the LORD
- B. 9–14 Keep the camp clean — he walks in it
- C. 15–18 No runaway betrayed, no hire of a harlot
- D. 19–23 No interest from a brother; pay what you vowed
- E. 24–25 Eat your fill, but fill no basket
Top cross-references8 chapters ▾
Nehemiah 133 verses
- Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
- Nehemiah 13:2because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
- Nehemiah 13:23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
- Read Nehemiah 13 →
Exodus 222 verses
- Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
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Leviticus 192 verses
- Leviticus 19:29You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
- Leviticus 19:34You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Read Leviticus 19 →
Deuteronomy 152 verses
- Deuteronomy 15:3You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
- Deuteronomy 15:10Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
- Read Deuteronomy 15 →
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Psalms 1161 verse
- Psalms 116:18I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people,
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Galatians 31 verse
- Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Read Galatians 3 →
Isaiah 561 verse
- Isaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
- Read Isaiah 56 →
Leviticus 211 verse
- Leviticus 21:17“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
- Read Leviticus 21 →
Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.