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No descendant of his may join the assembly of the LORD for ten generations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Ammonites or Moabites may not join the assembly of the LORD. Not one descendant of theirs may join the assembly of the LORD for ten generations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They cannot join because they didn't greet you with food and water on your trip from Egypt. They even hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor in Aram Naharaim, to curse you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam. Instead, he turned Balaam's curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God loves you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Never offer them peace or friendship as long as you live.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Never consider the Edomites disgusting. They're your relatives. Never consider the Egyptians disgusting. You once were foreigners living in their country. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their grandchildren may join the assembly of the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When you're at war and have set up camp to fight your enemies, stay away from anything that will make you unclean. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If one of your men becomes unclean from a nocturnal emission, he must go outside the camp and stay there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Toward evening he must wash, and at sunset he may come back to camp.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Choose a place outside the camp where you can go [to relieve yourself]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You must carry a pointed stick as part of your equipment. When you go outside to squat, dig a hole with it. When you're done, cover up your excrement. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The LORD your God moves around in your camp to protect you and hand your enemies over to you. So your camp must always be holy. This way, the LORD will never see anything offensive among you and turn away from you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If a slave escapes from his master and comes to you, don't return him to his master. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Let him stay with you [and live] among your people wherever he chooses, in any of your cities that seems best to him. Never mistreat him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>No Israelite man or woman should ever become a temple prostitute. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Never bring gifts or money earned by prostitution into the house of the LORD your God as an offering you vowed to give. These earnings are disgusting to the LORD your God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Never charge another Israelite any interest on money, food, or anything else that is borrowed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You may charge a foreigner interest, but not an Israelite. Then the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do once you've entered the land and taken possession of it.</p> <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, don't avoid keeping it. The LORD your God expects you to keep it. You would be guilty of a sin if you didn't. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If you didn't make a vow, you would not be guilty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Make sure you do what you said you would do [in your vow]. You freely chose to make your vow to the LORD your God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you like until you're full. But never put any in your basket.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If you go into your neighbor's grain field, you may pick grain by hand. But never use a sickle to cut your neighbor's grain.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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