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Exclusion From the Assembly
No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.
No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.
Exclusion from the Congregation
He that is a eunuch, whether he have been crushed or cut, shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
He that is a eunuch, whether he have been crushed or cut, shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even their tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah for ever;
because they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.
But Jehovah thy God would not listen to Balaam; and Jehovah thy God turned the curse into blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.
Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.
Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
Uncleanness in the Camp
When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.
When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.
Uncleanness in the Camp
When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing.
When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing.
If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.
If there be with thee a man that is not clean from what hath happened in the night, then shall he go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp;
But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.
and it shall be, towards evening, he shall bathe in water: and at the going down of the sun he may come inside the camp.
Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp, and shalt go forth thither.
As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons, and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee.
For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
For Jehovah thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; and thy camp shall be holy, that he see nothing unseemly with thee, and turn away from thee.
Miscellaneous Laws
If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.
If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master.
Miscellaneous Laws
Thou shalt not hand over to his master a bondman that hath escaped from his master unto thee:
Thou shalt not hand over to his master a bondman that hath escaped from his master unto thee:
Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.
he shall dwell with thee, even in thy midst, in the place that he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it seemeth good to him; thou shalt not oppress him.
No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.
There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.
Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest:
You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.
of a foreigner thou mayest take interest, but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.
When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not delay to perform it; for Jehovah thy God will certainly require it of thee, and it shall be sin in thee.
But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.
But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the Lord your God with your own mouth.
What is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do, as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God, the voluntary-offering that thou hast promised with thy mouth.
If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket.
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayest eat grapes thy fill, according to thy desire, but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not wave the sickle against thy neighbour's standing corn.