Deuteronomy 23:2
Good News Translation
"No one born out of wedlock or any descendant of such a person, even in the tenth generation, may be included among the LORD's people.

New Revised Standard Version
Those born of an illicit union shall not be admitted to the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
No one born outside of a legal marriage, or any of their descendants for ten generations, can fully belong to the LORD's people.

New American Bible
No one born of an illicit union may come into the assembly of the LORD, nor any descendant of such even to the tenth generation may come into the assembly of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot.

Zechariah 9:6 And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

John 8:41 You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

Hebrews 12:8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

Context
Exclusion from the Congregation
1An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord. 2A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.3The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:1
An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Deuteronomy 23:1
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