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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.
Deuteronomy 23:1-3
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Deuteronomy 23:1-3
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Exclusion From the Assembly
23 [a]No one who has been emasculated(A) by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.
2 No one born of a forbidden marriage[b] nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
3 No Ammonite(B) or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.(C)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 23:1 In Hebrew texts 23:1-25 is numbered 23:2-26.
- Deuteronomy 23:2 Or one of illegitimate birth
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