Deuteronomy 23:8
in Deuteronomy 23The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
KJV
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 23
Commentary
5 notes on this verse8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the L ORD in their third generation. Interpreters are not agreed what is here meant by entering into the congregation of the Lord, which is here forbidden to eunuchs and to bastards, Ammonites and Moabites, for ever, but to Edomites and Egyptians only till the third generation.
This site's exposition
Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother
on Deuteronomy 23:7-8
Edom and Egypt are both spared on grounds the text states. Edom is spared “for he is your brother”, even after Numbers 20:18-21, and Egypt “because you lived as a foreigner in his land”.
This site's exposition
The third generation of children
Wesley requires that the ancestor had come in as a proselyte and that his children kept his faith. The children could enter by degrees.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The children that are begotten of them, Of such as became proselytes: shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation; not in the third generation from the time that this law was made, but from the time that any of them should embrace the true religion; their sons were the second generation, and their grandchildren the third; and such might be admitted into the congregation, and be reckoned as of them, both in their civil and church state, and be capable of serving even offices among them, and of marriage with them, as the Targum of Jonathan; which some of the Jews interpret of males only, for females, according to them, might be married immediately as soon as made proselytes, in which way they account for the lawfulness of Solomon's marriage of Pharaoh's daughter (p). (p) Vid.
Israel was now encamped, and this vast army was just entering upon action, which was likely to keep them together for a long time, and therefore it was fit to give them particular directions for the good ordering of their camp.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּנִ֛ים | banim | children | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | who | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יִוָּלְד֥וּ | yivaldu | they will be born | H3205 → | 496 times |
| לָהֶ֖ם | lahem | to <the> them | ||
| דּ֣וֹר | dor | a generation | H1755 → | 167 times |
| שְׁלִישִׁ֑י | shelishi | third | H7992 → | |
| יָבֹ֥א | yavo' | it will go | H935 → | 2568 times |
| לָהֶ֖ם | lahem | of <the> them | ||
| בִּקְהַ֥ל | bikhal | in [the] assembly of | H6951 → | 123 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
בָּנִ֛יםchildren
banimH1121 →4930 times
אֲשֶׁר־who
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
יִוָּלְד֥וּthey will be born
yivalduH3205 →496 times
לָהֶ֖םto <the> them
lahem
דּ֣וֹרa generation
dorH1755 →167 times
שְׁלִישִׁ֑יthird
shelishiH7992 →
יָבֹ֥אit will go
yavo'H935 →2568 times
לָהֶ֖םof <the> them
lahem
בִּקְהַ֥לin [the] assembly of
bikhalH6951 →123 times
יְהוָֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.