The Scriptures 1998

Deuteronomy 23:5-13 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

5. “But יהוה your Elohim refused to listen to Bil‛am, and יהוה your Elohim turned the curse into a blessing for you, because יהוה your Elohim loves you.

6. “Do not seek their peace nor their good, all your days, forever.

7. “Do not loathe an Eḏomite, for he is your brother. Do not loathe a Mitsrite, because you were a stranger in his land.

8. “The children of the third generation born to them do enter the assembly of יהוה.

9. “When the army goes out against your enemies, then you shall guard yourself from every evil matter.

10. “When there is any man among you who is not clean because of an emission in the night, then he shall go outside the camp. Let him not come into the midst of the camp.

11. “And it shall be, when evening comes, that he bathes with water. And when the sun sets let him come into the midst of the camp.

12. “And you shall have a place outside the camp, where you shall go out,

13. and you shall have a sharp implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your excrement.