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Deuteronomy 23:1-3
New International Reader's Version
Deuteronomy 23:1-3
New International Reader's Version
Who Can Join in Worship With the Lord’s People?
23 No man whose sex organs have been crushed or cut can join in worship with the Lord’s people.
2 No one born to an unmarried woman can join in worship with the Lord’s people. That also applies to the person’s children for all time to come.
3 The people of Ammon and Moab can’t join in worship with the Lord’s people. That also applies to their children after them for all time to come.
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Deuteronomy 23:1-3
New International Version
Deuteronomy 23:1-3
New International Version
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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