Orthodox Jewish Bible

Devarim 23:3-16 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

3. (4) An Amoni or Moavi shall not enter into the Kahal Hashem; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the Kahal Hashem ad olam;

4. (5) Because they met you not with lechem and with mayim in the way, when ye came forth out of Mitzrayim; and because they hired against thee Balaam ben Beor from Petor in Aram Naharaim, to curse thee.

5. (6) Nevertheless Hashem Eloheicha would not give heed unto Balaam; but Hashem Eloheicha turned the kelalah into a berakhah unto thee, because Hashem Eloheicha loved thee.

6. (7) Thou shalt not seek their shalom nor their tovat all thy yamim l'olam.

7. (8) Thou shalt not abhor an Edomi; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor a Mitzri (an Egyptian); because thou wast a ger in his land.

8. (9) The banim that are begotten of them shall enter into the Kahal Hashem in their third generation.

9. (10) When the machaneh (camp) goeth forth against thine enemies, then be shomer over thee against every wicked thing.

10. (11) If there be among you any ish, that is not tahor (clean) by reason of a nocturnal occurrence, then shall he go outside the machaneh, he shall not come within the machaneh;

11. (12) But it shall be, when erev cometh on, he shall wash himself with mayim; and when the shemesh is down, he shall come into the machaneh again.

12. (13) Thou shalt have a place also outside the machaneh, whither thou shalt go forth outside;

13. (14) And thou shalt have a shovel in addition to thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt relieve thyself outside, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

14. (15) For Hashem Eloheicha walketh in the midst of thy machaneh, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy machaneh be kadosh; that He see no ervat davar (shameful thing) in thee, and turn away from thee.

15. (16) Thou shalt not give back unto his adon the eved which is rescued from his adon unto thee [see PM]:

16. (17) He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy she'arim, where it pleases him best; thou shalt not oppress him.