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Version</a></span><br />“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/23.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/23.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/23.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/23.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off may enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/23.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/23.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“No one who is emasculated, or has his male organ cut off, shall enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/23.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of Yahweh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/deuteronomy/23.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“He who has been castrated by <i>having his testicles</i> crushed or his male organ cut off shall not enter the congregation of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/deuteronomy/23.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may enter the LORD’s assembly.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/23.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may enter the LORD&#8217s assembly. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/23.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/deuteronomy/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />If a man's private parts have been crushed or cut off, he cannot fully belong to the LORD's people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/23.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/23.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />A man whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off may never join the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/23.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"No man who has been castrated or whose penis has been cut off may be included among the LORD's people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/deuteronomy/23.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br /> "No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may participate in the assembly of the LORD. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/deuteronomy/23.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/23.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off may enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/23.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />He that is wounded or mutilated in his secrets, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/deuteronomy/23.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/23.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/23.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“No one wounded, bruised, or cut in the genitals enters into the assembly of YHWH;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/23.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/deuteronomy/23.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />He wounded by crushing, and having the privy member cut off, shall not come in to the gathering of Jehovah.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/23.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />“A eunuch, one whose testicles have been debilitated or cut off, or whose penis has been cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/23.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may come into the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/23.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />NO adulterer shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/23.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />"An adulterer shall not enter the assembly of LORD JEHOVAH.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/23.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/deuteronomy/23.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=6227" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/23.htm">Exclusion from the Congregation</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">No man</a> <a href="/hebrew/6481.htm" title="6481: p̄ə·ṣū·a‘- (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-msc) -- To bruise, wound by bruising. A primitive root; to split, i.e. Wound.">with crushed</a> <a href="/hebrew/1795.htm" title="1795: dak·kā (N-ms) -- A crushing. From dakah like dakka'; mutilated."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3772.htm" title="3772: ū·ḵə·rūṯ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-msc) -- To cut off, cut down. A primitive root; to cut; by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant.">or severed</a> <a href="/hebrew/8212.htm" title="8212: šā·p̄ə·ḵāh (N-fs) -- Male organ. Feminine of a derivative from shaphak; a pipe, i.e. The penis.">genitals</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: yā·ḇō (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">may enter</a> <a href="/hebrew/6951.htm" title="6951: biq·hal (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Assembly, convocation, congregation. From qahal; assemblage.">the assembly</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">of the LORD.</a> </span><span class="reftext">2</span>No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/21-17.htm">Leviticus 21:17-21</a></span><br />“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God. / No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed; / no man who has a broken foot or hand, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/56-3.htm">Isaiah 56:3-5</a></span><br />Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.” / For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant— / I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-12.htm">Galatians 5:12</a></span><br />As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/8-26.htm">Acts 8:26-39</a></span><br />Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” / So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship, / and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/19-12.htm">Matthew 19:12</a></span><br />For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9-10</a></span><br />Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/22-24.htm">Leviticus 22:24</a></span><br />You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/1-9.htm">1 Timothy 1:9-10</a></span><br />We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers, / for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/21-27.htm">Revelation 21:27</a></span><br />But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/44-9.htm">Ezekiel 44:9</a></span><br />This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">1 Corinthians 5:11</a></span><br />But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-26.htm">Romans 1:26-27</a></span><br />For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. / Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-18.htm">1 Corinthians 7:18-20</a></span><br />Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised. / Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts. / Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/3-2.htm">Philippians 3:2-3</a></span><br />Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! / For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/12-23.htm">1 Corinthians 12:23-24</a></span><br />and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty, / whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">He that is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.</p><p class="hdg">wounded</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/21-17.htm">Leviticus 21:17-21</a></b></br> Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever <i>he be</i> of thy seed in their generations that hath <i>any</i> blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/22-22.htm">Leviticus 22:22-24</a></b></br> Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/galatians/3-28.htm">Galatians 3:28</a></b></br> There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Deuteronomy 23:2,3,8</a></b></br> A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/13-1.htm">Nehemiah 13:1-3</a></b></br> On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/56-3.htm">Isaiah 56:3,4</a></b></br> Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I <i>am</i> a dry tree… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/18-16.htm">Assembly</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-24.htm">Bruised</a> <a href="/numbers/35-24.htm">Congregation</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/14-6.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/numbers/22-25.htm">Crushing</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/21-12.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/18-9.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/genesis/39-1.htm">Eunuch</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/18-5.htm">Lord's</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-20.htm">Maimed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/20-13.htm">Male</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-25.htm">Meeting</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-47.htm">Member</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-18.htm">Mutilated</a> <a href="/genesis/4-21.htm">Organ</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-3.htm">Parts</a> <a href="/exodus/4-25.htm">Private</a> <a href="/acts/5-2.htm">Privy</a> <a href="/genesis/49-6.htm">Secrets</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-24.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-24.htm">Testicles</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-6.htm">Whether</a> <a href="/numbers/24-8.htm">Wounded</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Assembly</a> <a href="/2_samuel/17-19.htm">Bruised</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Congregation</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-6.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-4.htm">Crushing</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-12.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/esther/2-3.htm">Eunuch</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Lord's</a> <a href="/matthew/15-30.htm">Maimed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-18.htm">Male</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Meeting</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-13.htm">Member</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-18.htm">Mutilated</a> <a href="/job/21-12.htm">Organ</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-11.htm">Parts</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-11.htm">Private</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-44.htm">Privy</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-11.htm">Secrets</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-6.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-20.htm">Testicles</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-19.htm">Whether</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-39.htm">Wounded</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 23</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Who may or may not enter into the congregation</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-9.htm">Uncleanness is to be avoided in the host</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-15.htm">Of the fugitive servant</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-17.htm">Of filthiness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-18.htm">Of abominable sacrifices</a></span><br><span class="reftext">19. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-19.htm">Of usury</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-20.htm">Of vows</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-24.htm">Of trespass</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the ancient Near Eastern context, such conditions could result from accidents, warfare, or pagan religious practices, including self-castration. The prohibition reflects the importance of wholeness and integrity in those who participate in the worship and community life of Israel. The physical wholeness required here symbolizes spiritual and moral integrity. This requirement can be seen as a reflection of the holiness and perfection of God, who desires His people to be set apart and whole in their devotion to Him.<p><b>may enter the assembly of the LORD.</b><br>The "assembly of the LORD" refers to the congregation of Israel, particularly in the context of worship and communal decision-making. This exclusion from the assembly underscores the importance of purity and holiness in the community that represents God on earth. The assembly was a place where God's presence was uniquely manifest, and thus, those who entered needed to reflect His holiness. This requirement can be connected to the broader biblical theme of holiness, as seen in <a href="/leviticus/21-17.htm">Leviticus 21:17-23</a>, where physical defects disqualify priests from offering sacrifices. In the New Testament, the focus shifts from physical wholeness to spiritual wholeness, as seen in passages like <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9-11</a>, where Paul emphasizes the transformation and sanctification of believers through Christ. This transformation is a type of the ultimate restoration and wholeness found in Jesus Christ, who makes all believers spiritually whole and acceptable before God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The author of Deuteronomy, who is delivering God's laws to the Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, receiving the laws and commandments as they prepare to enter the Promised Land.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_assembly_of_the_lord.htm">The Assembly of the LORD</a></b><br>Refers to the congregation or community of Israel, particularly in a religious or worship context.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/h/holiness_and_wholeness.htm">Holiness and Wholeness</a></b><br>The physical requirements for entering the assembly symbolize the spiritual wholeness and purity God desires from His people. This calls us to pursue holiness in our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/cultural_context.htm">Cultural Context</a></b><br>Understanding the cultural and historical context of ancient Israel helps us see the importance of these laws in maintaining the distinct identity and purity of God's people.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_inclusion.htm">Spiritual Inclusion</a></b><br>While the Old Testament law had strict requirements, the New Testament reveals God's inclusive plan through Christ, who breaks down barriers and welcomes all who believe.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_physical_and_spiritual_integrity.htm">Symbolism of Physical and Spiritual Integrity</a></b><br>The physical condition mentioned in the verse symbolizes the need for spiritual integrity and commitment to God’s standards.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/grace_and_redemption.htm">Grace and Redemption</a></b><br>The New Testament shows that through Jesus, all are welcome into God's family, regardless of physical or social status, emphasizing grace and redemption.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_deuteronomy_23.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Deuteronomy 23</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/do_isaiah_56_3-5_and_deut._23_1_conflict.htm">Does Isaiah 56:3–5 contradict Deuteronomy 23:1 by allowing eunuchs into God’s congregation? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_emasculating_someone_mean.htm">What does emasculating someone mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_exclude_eunuchs_if_god_is_merciful.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 – How can excluding eunuchs from the assembly be reconciled with a supposedly inclusive and merciful God? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_eunuchs.htm">What does the Bible say about eunuchs?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/23.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(1) The rule that a eunuch should not enter into the congregation was doubtless intended to prevent the Israelitish rulers from making eunuchs of their brethren the children of Israel. As a set off to this apparent harshness towards the man who had been thus treated, we must read <a href="/context/isaiah/56-3.htm" title="Neither let the son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD has utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.">Isaiah 56:3-4</a>, in which a special promise is given to the eunuchs that keep God's Sabbaths and take hold of His covenant. God will give to them <span class= "ital">within His house and within His walls </span>"<span class= "ital">a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters</span>--an everlasting name that shall not be cut off." As a special calamity it was foretold to Hezekiah that some of his descendants should be eunuchs in the palace of the King of Babylon. But Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in whom this prophecy was fulfilled, have ennobled the "children that are of their sort" for evermore.<p>We have no means of knowing whether the eunuchs that were in the service of the kings of Israel or Judah (<a href="/1_samuel/8-15.htm" title="And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.">1Samuel 8:15</a>; <a href="/1_kings/22-9.htm" title="Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten here Micaiah the son of Imlah.">1Kings 22:9</a>; <a href="/2_kings/8-6.htm" title="And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.">2Kings 8:6</a>; <a href="/2_kings/9-32.htm" title="And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.">2Kings 9:32</a>, &c.) were Israelites by birth or not. Ebedmelech, <span class= "ital">the Ethiopian, </span>who received a special blessing from Jeremiah (<a href="/context/jeremiah/39-15.htm" title="Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,">Jeremiah 39:15-18</a>), was a foreigner, and so very possibly were most, if not all, of his kind in Israel. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/23.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 1.</span> - Mutilation was performed by the two methods here specified - crushing and excision. The exclusion of persons who had suffered this from the congregation, <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. from the covenant fellowship of Israel, the <span class="greek">πολιτεία τοῦ Ισραὴλ</span> (<a href="/ephesians/2-12.htm">Ephesians 2:12</a>), was due to the priestly character of the nation. Israel was a kingdom of priests (<a href="/exodus/19-6.htm">Exodus 19:6</a>), and the admission into it of one in whom the nature of man, as made by God, had been degraded and marred, would have been unfitting; just as all bodily blemish unfitted a man for being a priest, though otherwise qualified (<a href="/leviticus/21-16.htm">Leviticus 21:16-24</a>). This law, however, was one of the ordinances intended for the period of nonage; it had reference to the outward typical aspect of the Israelitish constitution; and it ceased to have any significance when the spiritual kingdom of God came to be established. Even under the theocracy, eunuchs were not excluded from religious privileges; they could keep God's Sabbaths, and take hold of his covenant, and choose the things pleasing to him, and so be part of the spiritual Israel, though shut out from the fellowship of that which was outward and national (cf. <a href="/isaiah/56-4.htm">Isaiah 56:4</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">No man</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹֽא־</span> <span class="translit">(lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with crushed</span><br /><span class="heb">פְצֽוּעַ־</span> <span class="translit">(p̄ə·ṣū·a‘-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6481.htm">Strong's 6481: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bruise, wound by bruising</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or severed</span><br /><span class="heb">וּכְר֥וּת</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḵə·rūṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3772.htm">Strong's 3772: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">genitals</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁפְכָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(šā·p̄ə·ḵāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8212.htm">Strong's 8212: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pipe, the penis</span><br /><br /><span class="word">may enter</span><br /><span class="heb">יָבֹ֧א</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḇō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in, come, go in, go</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the assembly</span><br /><span class="heb">בִּקְהַ֥ל</span> <span class="translit">(biq·hal)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6951.htm">Strong's 6951: </a> </span><span class="str2">Assembly, convocation, congregation</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the LORD.</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">Deuteronomy 23:1 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/deuteronomy/23-1.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 23:1 He who is wounded in the stones (Deut. 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