Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 23:7-21 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.

16. He shall reside with you in your midst in the place that he chooses in one of your towns wherever he pleases; you shall not oppress him.

17. “No woman of Israel shall be a temple prostitute, and no man of Israel shall be a male shrine prostitute.

18. You may not bring the hire of a prostitute or the earnings of a male prostitute into the house of Yahweh your God, for any vow offerings, because both are a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.

19. “You shall not charge your brother interest on money, interest on food, or interest on anything that one could lend on interest.

20. You may lend on interest to the foreigner, but to your countryman you may not lend on interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land where you are going, in order to take possession of it.

21. “When you make a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone fulfillment of it, for certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and if postponed you will incur guilt.