Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 23:13-25 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

13. You must have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.

14. For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you.

15. “Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.

16. Let him live among you wherever he wants within your gates. Do not mistreat him.

17. “No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

18. Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.

19. “Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or anything that can earn interest.

20. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.

21. “If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

22. But if you refrain from making a vow, it will not be counted against you as sin.

23. Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised to the Lord your God.

24. “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but you must not put any in your container.

25. When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.