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Deuteronomy 23:6-19 Amplified Bible (AMP)

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.

16. He shall dwell with you in your midst wherever he chooses in one of your towns where it pleases him best. You shall not defraud or oppress him.

17. There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.

18. You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog (a sodomite) into the house of the Lord your God as payment of a vow, for both of these [the gift and the giver] are an abomination to the Lord your God.

19. You shall not lend on interest to your brother–interest on money, on victuals, on anything that is lent for interest.