English Revised Version

Deuteronomy 23:8-22 English Revised Version (ERV)

8. The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.

9. When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.

10. If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which 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 bathe himself in water: and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

12. Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

13. and thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt 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 thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

15. Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

16. he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

17. There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the wages of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

19. Thou shalt 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 foreigner thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thine hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

21. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not be 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 thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.