Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 "No man who has been castrated or whose penis has been cut off may be included among the Lord's people.
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He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
2 "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.
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A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
3 "No Ammonite or Moabite - or any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation - may be included among the Lord's people.
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An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
4 They refused to provide you with food and water when you were on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor, from the city of Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse you.
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because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you
5 But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead he turned the curse into a blessing, because he loved you.
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Nevertheless 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.
6 As long as you are a nation, never do anything to help these nations or to make them prosperous.
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You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
7 "Do not despise the Edomites; they are your relatives. And do not despise the Egyptians; you once lived in their land.
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You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.
8 From the third generation onward their descendants may be included among the Lord's people.
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The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
9 "When you are in camp in time of war, you are to avoid anything that would make you ritually unclean.
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When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing.
10 If a man becomes unclean because he has had a wet dream during the night, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.
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If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
11 Toward evening he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may come back into camp.
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but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
12 "You are to have a place outside the camp where you can go when you need to relieve yourselves.
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You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:
13 Carry a stick as part of your equipment, so that when you have a bowel movement you can dig a hole and cover it up.
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and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:
14 Keep your camp ritually clean, because the Lord your God is with you in your camp to protect you and to give you victory over your enemies. Do not do anything indecent that would cause the Lord to turn his back on you
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for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you
15 "If slaves run away from their owners and come to you for protection, do not send them back.
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You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:
16 They may live in any of your towns that they choose, and you are not to treat them harshly.
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he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.
17 "No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.
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There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
18 Also, no money earned in this way may be brought into the house of the Lord your God in fulfillment of a vow. The Lord hates temple prostitutes.
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You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
19 "When you lend money or food or anything else to Israelites, do not charge them interest.
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You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent on interest
20 You may charge interest on what you lend to foreigners, but not on what you lend to Israelites. Obey this rule, and the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land that you are going to occupy.
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to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on 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.
21 "When you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not put off doing what you promised; the Lord will hold you to your vow, and it is a sin not to keep it.
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When you shall 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
22 It is no sin not to make a vow to the Lord,
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But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
23 but if you make one voluntarily, be sure that you keep it.
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That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth.
24 "When you walk along a path in someone else's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but you must not carry any away in a container.
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When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
25 When you walk along a path in someone else's grainfield, you may eat all the grain you can pull off with your hands, but you must not cut any grain with a sickle.
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When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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