None that is gelded or hath his privy members cut off, shall come into
the congregation of the LORD. And he that is born of a common woman
shall not come in the congregation of the LORD, no in the tenth
generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. The
Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come into the congregation of the
LORD, no not in the tenth generation, no they shall never come in to
the congregation of the LORD, because they met you not with bread and
water in the way when ye came out of Egypt, and because they hired
against thee Balaam the son of Beor the interpreter of Mesopotamia, to
curse thee. Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balam,
but turned the curse to a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God
loved thee. Thou shalt never therefore seek that which is prosperous or
good for them all thy days for ever. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite,
for he is thy brother: neither shalt thou abhor an Egyptian, because
thou wast a stranger in his land. The children that are begotten of
them shall come into the congregation of the LORD in the third
generation. When thou goest out with the host against thine enemies,
keep thee from all wickedness for the LORD is among you. If there be
any man that is unclean by the reason of uncleanness that chanceth him
by night, let him go out of the host and not come in again until he
have washed himself with water before the evening: and then when the
son is down, let him come into the host again. Thou shalt have a place
without the host whither thou shalt resort to and thou shalt have a
sharp point at the end of thy weapon: and when thou wilt ease thyself,
dig therewith and turn and cover that which is departed from thee. For
the LORD thy God walketh in thine host, to rid thee and to set thine
enemies before thee. Let thine host be pure that he see no unclean
thing among you and turn from you. Thou shalt not deliver unto his
master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. Let him
dwell with thee, even among you in what place he himself liketh best,
in one of thy cities where it is good for him, and vex him not. There
shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whorekeeper of the
sons of Israel. Thou shalt neither bring the hire of an whore nor the
price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God, in no manner of vow:
for even both of them are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt
be no usurer unto thy brother, neither in money nor in food, nor in any
manner thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayst lend
upon usury, but not unto thy brother, that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou
goest to conquer it. When thou hast vowed a vow unto the LORD thy God,
see thou be not slack to pay it. For he will surely require it of thee,
and it shall be sin unto thee. If thou shalt leave vowing, it shall be
no sin unto thee: but that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou
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