Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 23:1-15 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

1. “No man with crushed testicles or whose male organ is cut off may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

2. An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

3. An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants may come into the assembly of Yahweh forever,

4. because they did not come to meet you with food and with water when you came out of Egypt, and also because they hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram Naharaim to act against you to curse you.

5. But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

6. You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days forever.

7. “You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land.

8. The children that are born to them in the third generation may come representing them in the assembly of Yahweh.

9. “If you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against doing anything evil.

10. “If there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission during the night, he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp.

11. And then toward the coming of the evening, he shall bathe with water, and at the going down of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp.

12. “And there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; and you shall go there to relieve yourself,

13. and a digging tool shall be included in addition to your other utensils for yourself; and then when you relieve yourself outside the camp you shall dig with it, and then you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement.

14. For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you before you, and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it anything indecent, and he shall turn away from going with you.

15. “And you shall not hand over a slave to his master who has escaped and fled to you from his master.