Deuteronomy 23:8
Good News Translation
From the third generation onward their descendants may be included among the LORD's people.

New Revised Standard Version
The children of the third generation that are born to them may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
and let their great-grandchildren become part of Israel, the LORD's people.

New American Bible
Children born to them may come into the assembly of the LORD in the third generation.

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

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

enter into

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.

Romans 3:29,30 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also. . . .

Ephesians 2:12,13 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world. . . .

third generation

Deuteronomy 23:2,3 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. . . .

Exodus 20:5,6 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: . . .

Context
Exclusion from the Congregation
7Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Deuteronomy 23:9
When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.

Deuteronomy 23:7
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