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Chapter 23  
     
1.
 He that is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
  
2.
 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.
  
3.
 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever:
  
4.
 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
  
5.
 Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.
  
6.
 Thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
  
7.
 Thou shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land.
  
8.
 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
  
9.
 When the host goes forth against your enemies, then keep you from every wicked thing.
  
10.
 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:  
11.
 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
  
12.
 Thou shall have a place also without the camp, whither you shall go forth abroad:
  
13.
 And you shall have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when you will ease thyself abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
  
14.
 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up your enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
  
15.
 Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
  
16.
 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: you shall not oppress him.
  
17.
 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  
18.
 Thou shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
  
19.
 Thou shall not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
  
20.
 Unto a stranger you may lend upon usury; but unto thy brother you shall not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless you in all that you settest your hand to in the land whither you goest to possess it.
  
21.
 When you shall vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, you shall not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
  
22.
 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
  
23.
 That which is gone out of thy lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed unto the Lord thy God, which you have promised with thy mouth.
  
24.
 When you comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then you may eat grapes thy fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in thy vessel.
  
25.
 When you comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
  

 
 
 

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