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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Deuteronomy 23 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Deuteronomy 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/22.htm" title="Deuteronomy 22">◄</a> Deuteronomy 23 <a href="../deuteronomy/24.htm" title="Deuteronomy 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/deuteronomy/23.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Qualifications for Assembling</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="23:1 This v. is 2 in MT, and so throughout the chapter.">a</a></span> “No man whose testicles have been crushed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="23:1 Or wounded">b</a></span> or whose penis has been cut off may participate in the assembly of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Furthermore, no one born due to an illicit sexual relationship may participate in the assembly of the LORD, including his descendants to the tenth generation. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“No Ammonite or Moabite may participate in the assembly of the LORD, and none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD, to the tenth generation, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>because they didn’t come to meet you with food and water along the way as you were coming out of Egypt. Instead, they hired Beor’s son Balaam from Pethor in Aram-naharaim<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="23:4 i.e. Mesopotamia">c</a></span> to curse you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>However, the LORD your God didn’t listen to Balaam. The LORD your God turned Balaam’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="23:5 Lit. his">d</a></span> curse into a blessing, because the LORD your God loves you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Don’t seek a peace treaty with them as long as you live. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Don’t detest Edomites, since they are related to you. Don’t detest Egyptians, either, because you were strangers in their land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their grandchildren<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="23:8 Lit. Children born in the third generation">e</a></span> may participate in the assembly of the LORD.”</p> <p class="heading">Community Sanitation</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“When you are encamped for battle against your enemies, be on guard against every form of impropriety. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If someone among you becomes unclean due to nocturnal emissions, he must leave the camp and stay outside. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As evening approaches he must wash himself with water. Then at sunset, he may return to the camp.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Choose a place outside the camp for a latrine. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Include a spade among your equipment so that when you squat to relieve yourself, you can dig a hole and then cover your excrement. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the LORD your God is on the move within your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you. Therefore your camp must be holy so that he will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.”</p> <p class="heading">Treatment of Slaves</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Don’t hand over a slave who escaped from his master when he runs to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Let him live among you wherever he chooses in any of your cities that he likes. Don’t mistreat him.”</p> <p class="heading">Cultic Prostitution Prohibited</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“There are to be no cultic prostitutes among the daughters or the sons of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Don’t bring the earnings of a female prostitute nor the income of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God as payment for any vow. Both of these are detestable to the LORD your God.”</p> <p class="heading">Fair Dealings</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Don’t charge interest to your relatives, whether for money, food, or for anything that has been loaned at interest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You may charge interest to a foreigner, but don’t charge interest to your relatives, so the LORD your God may bless you in everything you undertake in the land that you are about to enter and possess.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“When you make a vow to the LORD your God, don’t delay paying it, because the LORD your God will certainly demand payment from you, and then you will be guilty of sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But if you refrain from making a vow, then you won’t be guilty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Be sure you do whatever you promise, because you have given your word voluntarily to the LORD your God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“When you enter your countrymen’s vineyard, you may eat the grapes to your satisfaction, but don’t take any in a basket. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When you enter your countrymen’s grain fields, you may pluck the grain with your hand, but don’t put a sickle to his standing grain.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 23:1 This v. is 2 in MT, and so throughout the chapter.<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 23:1 Or <i>wounded</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 23:4 i.e. Mesopotamia<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 23:5 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 23:8 Lit. <i>Children born in the third generation</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/deuteronomy/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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