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23 a No one who has been emasculatedj by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.
2 No one born of a forbidden marriageb nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
3 No Ammonitek or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.l 4 For they did not come to meet you with bread and waterm on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaamn son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaimc o to pronounce a curse on you.p 5 However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curseq into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God lovesr you. 6 Do not seek a treatys of friendship with them as long as you live.t
7 Do not despise an Edomite,u for the Edomites are related to you.v Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.w 8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.
9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.x 10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.y 11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunsetz he may return to the camp.a
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God movesb about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy,c so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
15 If a slave has taken refuged with you, do not hand them over to their master.e 16 Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppressf them.
17 No Israelite mang or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.h 18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostituted into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.i
19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.j 20 You may charge a foreignerk interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may blessl you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.
21 If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it,m for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.n 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.o 23 Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the Lord your God with your own mouth.
24 If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. 25 If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.p
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