Deuteronomy 23
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
1An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.
2No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
2A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
3The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:
4For 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.
4Because 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.
5Yet 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.
5And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
6You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
6Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
7Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
7Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
8The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
8They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.
9When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
9When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.
10If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
10If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.
11When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.
11And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.
12You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.
12Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,
13And 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.
13Carrying 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
14For 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.
14That 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.
15Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
15Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to thee.
16Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
16He shall dwell with thee ill the place that shall please him, and shall rest, in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.
17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
17There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.
18You 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.
18Thou 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.
19Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
19Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:
20You 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.
20But 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.
21If 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.
21When 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.
22But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.
22If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.
23Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
23But 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.
24When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
24Going into thy neighbour’s vineyard, thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:
25When 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.
25If 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.
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