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Deuteronomy 23:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 23:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 23
1 A man shall not marry his father’s wife; he is not to dishonor his father’s bed.[a]
Membership Exclusions. 2 No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting can enter the assembly of the Lord.[b] 3 No one who is illegitimate[c] can enter the assembly of the Lord, nor can his descendants to the tenth generation enter the assembly of the Lord.
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- Deuteronomy 23:1 Dishonor his father’s bed: literally, “lift the hem of his father’s blanket.” “To stretch the hem (of a blanket)” over a woman meant to marry her; “to lift the hem (of the blanket)” meant to attack the conjugal rights of another over a woman.
- Deuteronomy 23:2 According to some scholars, this mutilation may have indicated that person now belonged to a Canaanite divinity.
- Deuteronomy 23:3 One who is illegitimate: a person who had a foreigner for one of his parents.
