The Bible

Deuteronomy Chapter 23

¹He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting may not enter Yahweh's assembly. ²A person born of a forbidden union may not enter into Yahweh's assembly; even to the tenth generation no one of his [family] may enter into Yahweh's assembly. ³No Ammonite or Moabite may enter into Yahweh's assembly; even to the tenth generation no one belonging to them may ever enter into Yahweh's assembly, ⁴because they didn't meet you with bread and water on the journey when you left Egypt, and because against you they hired Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia to curse you. ⁵Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you. ⁶Don't seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. ⁷Don't abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. Don't abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. ⁸The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh's assembly.

⁹When you go out and camp against your enemies, keep yourselves from every evil thing. ¹⁰If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what happens to him by night, then he is to go outside of the camp. He may not come within the camp; ¹¹but when evening comes, he is to bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he may come within the camp. ¹²Have a place outside of the camp where you go [to relieve yourself] as well. ¹³Have a trowel among your weapons. When you relieve yourself, dig with it, and turn and cover your excrement; ¹⁴for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp must be holy, so that he won't see any unclean thing [among you], and turn away [from you].

¹⁵Don't deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you. ¹⁶He is to live with you, among you, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. Don't oppress him.

¹⁷the daughters of Israel must not be cult-prostitutes, nor may the sons of Israel be cult-prostitutes. ¹⁸Don't bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of [such] a dog into Yahweh your God's house for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

¹⁹Don't lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest. ²⁰You may charge a foreigner interest; but you must not charge your brother interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land which you are going in to possess.

²¹When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, don't be slow to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it from you. It would be sin. ²²But it wouldn't be sin if you refrain from making a vow. ²³You must observe and do what has gone out of your lips. You must do whatever you have promised with your mouth and vowed as a freewill offering to Yahweh your God. ²⁴When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes until you are full; but don't put any in your container. ²⁵When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but don't use a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain.