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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 "No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may participate in the assembly of the LORD. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Furthermore, no one born due to an illicit sexual relationship may participate in the assembly of the LORD, including his descendants to the tenth generation. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"No Ammonite or Moabite may participate in the assembly of the LORD, and none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD, to the tenth generation, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4because they didn't come to meet you with food and water along the way as you were coming out of Egypt. Instead, they hired Beor's son Balaam from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5However, the LORD your God didn't listen to Balaam. The LORD your God turned Balaam's curse into a blessing, because the LORD your God loves you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Don't seek a peace treaty with them as long as you live. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Don't detest Edomites, since they are related to you. Don't detest Egyptians, either, because you were strangers in their land. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Their grandchildren may participate in the assembly of the LORD." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"When you are encamped for battle against your enemies, be on guard against every form of impropriety. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10If someone among you becomes unclean due to nocturnal emissions, he must leave the camp and stay outside. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As evening approaches he must wash himself with water. Then at sunset, he may return to the camp. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Choose a place outside the camp for a latrine. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Include a spade among your equipment so that when you squat to relieve yourself, you can dig a hole and then cover your excrement. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For the LORD your God is on the move within your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you. Therefore your camp must be holy so that he will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Don't hand over a slave who escaped from his master when he runs to you. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Let him live among you wherever he chooses in any of your cities that he likes. Don't mistreat him." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"There are to be no cultic prostitutes among the daughters or the sons of Israel. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Don't bring the earnings of a female prostitute nor the income of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God as payment for any vow. Both of these are detestable to the LORD your God." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Don't charge interest to your relatives, whether for money, food, or for anything that has been loaned at interest. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You may charge interest to a foreigner, but don't charge interest to your relatives, so the LORD your God may bless you in everything you undertake in the land that you are about to enter and possess. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"When you make a vow to the LORD your God, don't delay paying it, because the LORD your God will certainly demand payment from you, and then you will be guilty of sin. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But if you refrain from making a vow, then you won't be guilty. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Be sure you do whatever you promise, because you have given your word voluntarily to the LORD your God. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"When you enter your countrymen's vineyard, you may eat the grapes to your satisfaction, but don't take any in a basket. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When you enter your countrymen's grain fields, you may pluck the grain with your hand, but don't put a sickle to his standing grain." |
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