Deuteronomy 23

1 “No one wounded, bruised, or cut in the genitals enters into the assembly of YHWH;

An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

2 a bastard does not enter into the assembly of YHWH; even a tenth generation of him does not enter into the assembly of YHWH.

A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

3 An Ammonite and a Moabite do not enter into the assembly of YHWH; even a tenth generation of them do not enter into the assembly of YHWH—for all time,

The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

4 because that they have not come before you with bread and with water in the way, in your coming out from Egypt, and because he has hired against you Balaam son of Beor, of Pethor of Aram-Naharaim, to revile you;

Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: hand because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.

5 and your God YHWH has not been willing to listen to Balaam, and your God YHWH turns the reviling to a blessing for you, because your God YHWH has loved you;

And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.

6 you do not seek their peace and their good all your days—for all time.

Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.

7 You do not detest an Edomite, for he [is] your brother; you do not detest an Egyptian, for you have been a sojourner in his land;

Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

8 sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, enter into the assembly of YHWH.

They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.

9 When a camp goes out against your enemies, then you have kept from every evil thing.

When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.

10 When there is a man who is not clean in you, from an accident at night, then he has gone out to the outside of the camp; he does not come into the midst of the camp;

If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.

11 and it has been, at the turning of the evening, he bathes with water, and at the going in of the sun he comes into the midst of the camp.

And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.

12 And you have a station at the outside of the camp, and you have gone out there outside;

Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,

13 and you have a peg on your staff, and it has been, in your sitting outside, that you have dug with it, and turned back, and covered your filth.

Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover

14 For your God YHWH is walking up and down in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give your enemies before you, and your camp has been holy, and He does not see the nakedness of anything in you, and has turned back from after you.

That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to thee: ) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away from thee.

15 You do not shut up a servant to his lord, who escapes to you from his lord;

Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to thee.

16 he dwells with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it is pleasing to him; you do not oppress him.

He shall dwell with thee ill the place that shall please him, and shall rest, in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.

17 There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;

There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

18 you do not bring the wage of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of your God YHWH for any vow; for even both of them [are] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.

Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

19 You do not lend in usury to your brother—usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.

Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:

20 You may lend in usury to a stranger, but you do not lend in usury to your brother, so that your God YHWH blesses you in every putting forth of your hand on the land to where you go in to possess it.

But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

21 When you vow a vow to your God YHWH, you do not delay to complete it; for your God YHWH certainly requires it from you, lest it has been sin in you.

When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.

22 And when you refrain to vow, it is not sin in you.

If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.

23 You keep and have done the utterance of your lips, as you have vowed to your God YHWH, a free-will offering which you have spoken with your mouth.

But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.

24 When you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you have eaten grapes according to your desire, your sufficiency, but you do not put [any] into your vessel.

Going into thy neighbour’s vineyard, thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:

25 When you come in among the standing grain of your neighbor, then you have plucked the ears with your hand, but you do not wave a sickle over the standing grain of your neighbor.”

If thou go into thy friend’s corn, thou mayst break the ears, and rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.