Deuteronomy 23

¹No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

²No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation , none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord.

³No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation , none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever ,

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

⁵But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam ; instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.

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

⁷You shall not abhor an Edomite , for he is your brother . You shall not abhor an Egyptian , because you were a sojourner in his land .

⁸Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the Lord.

⁹When you are encamped against your enemies , then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing .

¹⁰If any man among you unclean because of a nocturnal emission , then he shall go outside the camp . He shall not come inside the camp ,

¹¹but when evening comes , he shall bathe himself in water , and as the sun sets , he may come inside the camp .

¹²You shall have a place outside the camp , and you shall go out to it.

¹³And you shall have a trowel with your tools , and when you sit down outside , you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement .

¹⁴Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp , to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy , so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you .

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

¹⁶He shall dwell with you, in your midst , in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns , wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.

¹⁷None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute , and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute .

¹⁸You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow , for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God .

¹⁹You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother , interest on money , interest on food , interest on anything that is lent for interest .

²⁰You may charge a foreigner interest , but you may not charge your brother interest , that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

²¹If you make a vow to the Lord your God , you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin .

²²But if you refrain from vowing , you will not be guilty of sin .

²³You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips , for you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth .

²⁴If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard , you may eat your fill of grapes , as many as you wish , but you shall not put any in your bag .

²⁵If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain , you may pluck the ears with your hand , but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain .