| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Deuteronomy
23
An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or
yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the
Lord.
A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute,
shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the
tenth generation.
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation
shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:
Because they would not meet you with bread and water
in the way, when you came out of Egypt: hand because
they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from
Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.
And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned
his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou
seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy
brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger
in his land.
They that are born of them, in the third generation
shall enter into the church of the Lord.
When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou
shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.
If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a
dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.
And shall not return, before he be washed with water
in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into
the camp.
Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou
mayst go for the necessities of nature,
Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest
down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth
that is dug up thou shalt cover
That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God
walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and
to give up thy enemies to thee:) and let thy camp be
holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein, lest he
go away from thee.
Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that
is fled to thee.
He shall dwell with thee ill the place that shall please
him, and shall rest, in one of thy cities: give him
no trouble.
There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel,
nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.
Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the
price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever
it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an
abomination to the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor
corn, nor any other thing:
But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend
that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord
thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land,
which thou shalt go in to possess.
When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou
shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God
will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed
to thee for a sin.
If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.
But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt
observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord
thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with
thy own mouth.
Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat
as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none
out with thee:
If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou mayst break
the ears, and rub them in thy hand: but not reap them
with a sickle. |