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Those Excluded from the Congregation
“He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the Lord.
“He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the Lord.
“One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
“If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.
“An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever,
“No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.
These nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt. Instead, they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in distant Aram-naharaim to curse you.
Nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.
But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam. He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you.
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.
“You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.
“Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians, because the Edomites are your relatives and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians.
The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.
The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Cleanliness of the Campsite
“When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.
“When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.
Miscellaneous Regulations
“When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away from anything that is impure.
If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp.
“Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.
But it shall be, when evening comes, that he shall wash with water; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp.
Toward evening he must bathe himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.
“Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out;
“You must have a designated area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.
Each of you must have a spade as part of your equipment. Whenever you relieve yourself, dig a hole with the spade and cover the excrement.
For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.
The camp must be holy, for the LORD your God moves around in your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies. He must not see any shameful thing among you, or he will turn away from you.
Miscellaneous Laws
“You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.
“You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.
“If slaves should escape from their masters and take refuge with you, you must not hand them over to their masters.
Let them live among you in any town they choose, and do not oppress them.
“No Israelite, whether man or woman, may become a temple prostitute.
“You shall not charge interest to your brother — interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest.
“Do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether you loan money, or food, or anything else.
To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.
You may charge interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you.
“When you make a vow to the LORD your God, be prompt in fulfilling whatever you promised him. For the LORD your God demands that you promptly fulfill all your vows, or you will be guilty of sin.
But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you.
However, it is not a sin to refrain from making a vow.
That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth.
But once you have voluntarily made a vow, be careful to fulfill your promise to the LORD your God.
“When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container.
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not carry any away in a basket.
When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
And when you enter your neighbor’s field of grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not harvest it with a sickle.