Deuteronomy 23:25 - Prayer Tents

Persons Excluded from the Assembly

23HE WHO is wounded in the testicles, or has been made a eunuch, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.H6481H1795H8212H3772H935H6951H3068

2A person begotten out of wedlock shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall his descendants not enter into the congregation of the Lord.H4464H935H6951H3068H6224H1755H935H6951H3068

3An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation their descendants shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord forever,H5984H4125H935H6951H3068H6224H1755H935H6951H3068H5704H5769

4Because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia against you to curse you.H1697H6923H3899H4325H1870H3318H4714H7936H1109H1121H1160H6604H763H7043

5Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loves you.H3068H430H14H8085H1109H3068H430H2015H7045H1293H3068H430H157

6You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.H1875H7965H2896H3117H5769

7You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother [Esau's descendant]. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger {and} temporary resident in his land.H8581H130H251H8581H4713H1616H776

8Their children may enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.H1121H3205H935H6951H3068H7992H1755

9When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.H4264H3318H341H8104H7451H1697

10If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what happens to him at night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp;H376H2889H7137H3915H3318H2351H4264H935H8432H4264

11But when evening comes he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down he may return to the camp.H6153H6437H7364H4325H8121H935H935H8432H4264

12You shall have a place also outside the camp to which you shall go [as a comfort station];H3027H2351H4264H3318H2351

13And you shall have a paddle {or} shovel among your weapons, and when you sit down outside [to relieve yourself], you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up what has come from you.H3489H240H3427H2351H2658H7725H3680H6627

14For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore shall your camp be holy, that He may see nothing indecent among you and turn away from you.H3068H430H1980H7130H4264H5337H5414H341H6440H4264H6918H7200H6172H1697H7725H310

15You shall not give up to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.H5462H113H5650H5337H113

16He shall dwell with you in your midst wherever he chooses in one of your towns where it pleases him best. You shall not defraud {or} oppress him.H3427H7130H4725H977H259H8179H2896H3238

17There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.H6948H1323H3478H6945H1121H3478

18You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog (a sodomite) into the house of the Lord your God as payment of a vow, for both of these [the gift and the giver] are an abomination to the Lord your God.H935H868H2181H4242H3611H1004H3068H430H5088H8147H8441H3068H430

19You shall not lend on interest to your brother--interest on money, on victuals, on anything that is lent for interest.H5391H251H5392H3701H5392H400H5392H1697H5391

20You may lend on interest to a foreigner, but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land to which you go to possess it.H5237H5391H251H5391H3068H430H1288H4916H3027H776H935H3423

21When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be slack in paying it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and slackness would be sin in you.H5087H5088H3068H430H309H7999H3068H430H1875H1875H2399

22But if you refrain from vowing, it will not be sin in you.H2308H5087H2399

23The vow which has passed your lips you shall be watchful to perform, a voluntary offering which you have made to the Lord your God, which you have promised with your mouth.H4161H8193H8104H6213H5071H5087H3068H430H1696H6310

24When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you please, but you shall not put any in your vessel.H935H7453H3754H398H6025H7648H5315H5414H3627

25When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.H935H7054H7453H6998H4425H3027H5130H2770H7453H7054