Deuteronomy 23 — GMV

23 Verse 1 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt. ^{Verse 2} He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord. ^{Verse 3} One born of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord. ^{Verse 4} The Ammonite and Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even until the tenth generation he shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even forever: ^{Verse 5} because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when ye went out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse thee. ^{Verse 6} But the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord thy God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord thy God loved thee. ^{Verse 7} Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days forever. ^{Verse 8} Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. ^{Verse 9} If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord. ^{Verse 10} And if thou shouldest go forth to engage with thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every wicked thing. ^{Verse 11} If there should be in thee a man who is not clean by reason of his issue by night, then he shall go forth out of the camp, and he shall not enter into the camp. ^{Verse 12} And it shall come to pass toward evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun has gone down, he shall go into the camp. ^{Verse 13} And thou shalt have a place outside of the camp, and thou shalt go out thither, ^{Verse 14} and thou shalt have a trowel on thy girdle; and it shall come to pass when thou wouldest relieve thyself abroad, that thou shalt dig with it, and shalt bring back the earth and cover thy nuisance. ^{Verse 15} Because the Lord thy God walks in thy camp to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemy before thy face; and thy camp shall be holy, and there shall not appear in thee a disgraceful thing, and so he shall turn away from thee. ^{Verse 16} Thou shalt not deliver a servant to his master, who coming from his master attaches himself to thee. ^{Verse 17} He shall dwell with thee, he shall dwell among you where he shall please; thou shalt not afflict him. ^{Verse 18} There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel. ^{Verse 19} Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord thy God. ^{Verse 20} Thou shalt not lend to thy brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of anything which thou mayest lend out. ^{Verse 21} Thou mayest lend on usury to a stranger, but to thy brother thou shalt not lend on usury; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works upon the land, into which thou art entering to inherit it. ^{Verse 22} And if thou wilt vow a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and otherwise it shall be sin in thee. ^{Verse 23} But if thou shouldest be unwilling to vow, it is not sin in thee. ^{Verse 24} Thou shalt observe the words that proceed from between thy lips; and as thou hast vowed a gift to the Lord God, so shalt thou do that which thou hast spoken with thy mouth. ^{Verse 25} And if thou shouldest go into the corn field of thy neighbor, then thou mayest gather the ears with thy hands; but thou shalt not put the sickle to thy neighbor’s corn. ^{Verse 26} And if thou shouldest go into the vineyard of thy neighbor, thou shalt eat grapes sufficient to satisfy thy desire; but thou mayest not put them into a vessel.