Deuteronomy 23:8
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New International Version (©2011)
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the LORD.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The children born to them in the third generation may enter the LORD's assembly."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Their grandchildren may participate in the assembly of the LORD."

NET Bible (©2006)
Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Their grandchildren may join the assembly of the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

American King James Version
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

American Standard Version
The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.

English Revised Version
The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
The children that are begotten by them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

World English Bible
The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-8 We ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselves and for our children, above all other advantages. No personal blemishes, no crimes of our forefathers, no difference of nation, shuts us out under the Christian dispensation. But an unsound heart will deprive us of blessings; and a bad example, or an unsuitable marriage, may shut our children from them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The children that are begotten of them, Of such as became proselytes:

shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation; not in the third generation from the time that this law was made, but from the time that any of them should embrace the true religion; their sons were the second generation, and their grandchildren the third; and such might be admitted into the congregation, and be reckoned as of them, both in their civil and church state, and be capable of serving even offices among them, and of marriage with them, as the Targum of Jonathan; which some of the Jews interpret of males only, for females, according to them, might be married immediately as soon as made proselytes, in which way they account for the lawfulness of Solomon's marriage of Pharaoh's daughter (p).

(p) Vid. Kimchi in 1 Reg. 3. 1. or 1 Kings 3. 1. & Misn. Yebamot, c. 8. sect. 3.

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Exclusion from the Congregation
…6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever. 7You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land. 8The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

Deuteronomy 23:7 Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.
Deuteronomy 23:9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.