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DEUTERONOMY chapter
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1 He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting
shall not enter into Jehovah’s assembly. 2 A person born of a forbidden
union shall not enter into Jehovah’s assembly; even to the tenth generation
shall no one of his enter into Jehovah’s assembly.
3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Jehovah’s
assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter
into Jehovah’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
Jehovah your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Jehovah your God turned the curse
into a blessing to you, because Jehovah 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 Jehovah’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 to him by night, then
he shall 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; 14 for Jehovah your God walks in
the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before
you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in
you, and turn away from you.
15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant
who has escaped from his master to you. 16 He shall dwell with you, among
you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it
pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters
of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 You
shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute,
into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow; for both of these are an
abomination to Jehovah your God.
19 You shall not lend on interest to your
brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent
on interest. 20 You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your
brother you shall not lend on interest, that Jehovah your God may bless you in
all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
21 When you vow a vow to Jehovah your God, you
shall not be slack to pay it; for Jehovah your God will surely require it of
you; and it would be sin in you. 22 But if you refrain from making a vow,
it shall be no sin in you. 23 You shall observe and do that which has gone
out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Jehovah your God as a freewill
offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard,
then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not
put any in your container. 25 When you come into your neighbor’s standing
grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a
sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.
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