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Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Uncleanness in the Camp<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../leviticus/15.htm">Leviticus 15:1–12</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">Miscellaneous Laws<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> That is, Mesopotamia; <i>Aram-naharaim</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>Aram of the two rivers</i><span class="thin"> </span>, likely the region between the Euphrates and Balih Rivers in northwestern Mesopotamia.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew <i>or a dog</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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