Deuteronomy 23

1He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.Cross-references: Lev 21:17 · Lev 22:22 · Deut 23:2 · Deut 23:8 · Neh 13:1 · Isa 56:3 · +2 more

2A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.Cross-references: Isa 57:3 · Zech 9:6 · John 8:41 · Heb 12:8

3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,Cross-references: Ruth 4:6 · Ruth 4:10 · Neh 4:3 · Neh 4:7 · Neh 13:1 · Neh 13:23 · +1 more

4because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.Cross-references: Gen 14:17 · Num 22:5 · Num 22:17 · Num 23:7 · Deut 2:28 · 1Sam 25:11 · +7 more

5Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.Cross-references: Num 22:35 · Num 23:5 · Num 23:16 · Num 24:9 · Deut 7:7 · Deut 33:3 · +11 more

6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:2 · 2Sam 12:31 · Ezra 9:12 · Neh 13:23

7You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.Cross-references: Gen 25:24 · Gen 25:30 · Gen 45:17 · Gen 46:7 · Gen 47:6 · Gen 47:12 · +10 more

8The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Deut 23:1 · Rom 3:29 · Eph 2:12

9When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.Cross-references: Josh 6:18 · Josh 7:11 · Judg 20:26 · 2Chr 19:4 · 2Chr 20:3 · 2Chr 31:20 · +2 more

10If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;Cross-references: Lev 15:16 · Num 5:2 · 1Cor 5:11

11but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.Cross-references: Lev 11:25 · Lev 14:9 · Lev 15:5 · Lev 15:11 · Lev 15:13 · Lev 15:17 · +11 more

12You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.

13You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;Cross-references: Ezek 24:6

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 shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Ex 3:5 · Lev 26:12 · 2Cor 6:16

15You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.Cross-references: 1Sam 30:15 · Obad 1:14

16He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.Cross-references: Ex 22:21 · Ex 23:9 · Isa 16:3 · Jer 7:6 · Zech 7:10 · Mal 3:5 · +3 more

17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 19:4 · Lev 19:29 · Deut 22:21 · Deut 22:29 · Judg 19:22 · 1Ki 14:24 · +7 more

18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.Cross-references: Lev 7:16 · Lev 18:22 · Deut 12:6 · Deut 23:21 · Ps 5:4 · Ps 22:16 · +10 more

19You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.Cross-references: Ex 22:25 · Lev 25:35 · Neh 5:1 · Ps 15:5 · Ezek 18:7 · Ezek 18:13 · +3 more

20You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.Cross-references: Lev 19:33 · Deut 14:21 · Deut 15:3 · Deut 15:10 · Deut 28:12 · Prov 19:17 · +3 more

21When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.Cross-references: Gen 28:20 · Gen 35:1 · Lev 27:2 · Num 30:1 · Deut 23:18 · Ps 56:12 · +8 more

22But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.

23You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.Cross-references: Num 30:2 · Judg 11:30 · Judg 11:35 · 1Sam 1:11 · 1Sam 14:24 · Ps 66:13 · +7 more

24When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.Cross-references: Rom 12:13 · 1Cor 10:26 · Heb 13:5

25When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.Cross-references: Matt 12:1 · Mark 2:23 · Luke 6:1