Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Deuteronomy 23:1-6 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

2. A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

3. The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

4. Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.

5. And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.

6. Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.