New English Translation

Deuteronomy 23:8-21 New English Translation (NET)

8. Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

9. When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

10. If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

11. When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

12. You are to have a place outside the camp to serve as a latrine.

13. You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself outside you must dig a hole with the spade and then turn and cover your excrement.

14. For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

15. You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

16. Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

17. There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

18. You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

19. You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

20. You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

21. When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.