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Deuteronomy 23:3-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)

3. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation their descendants shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord forever,

4. Because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia against you to curse you.

5. Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loves you.

6. You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.

7. You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother [Esau's descendant]. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger and temporary resident in his land.

8. Their children may enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

9. When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.

10. If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what happens to him at night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp;

11. But when evening comes he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down he may return to the camp.

12. You shall have a place also outside the camp to which you shall go [as a comfort station];

13. And you shall have a paddle or shovel among your weapons, and when you sit down outside [to relieve yourself], you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up what has come from you.

14. For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore shall your camp be holy, that He may see nothing indecent among you and turn away from you.

15. You shall not give up to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.