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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.
“If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.
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 for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
“Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians, because the Edomites are your relatives and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians.
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 Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
Miscellaneous Regulations
“When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away from anything that is 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.
“Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.
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;
Toward evening he must bathe 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.
“You must have a designated area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp, and shalt go forth thither.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“If slaves should escape from their masters and take refuge with you, you must not hand them over to their masters.
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 in any town they choose, and 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, whether man or woman, may become a temple 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 interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether you loan money, or food, or anything else.
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 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.
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.
“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.
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.
However, it is not a sin to refrain from making a vow.
But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
But once you have voluntarily made a vow, be careful to fulfill your promise to the LORD your God.
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.
“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 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.
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.
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.