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UST DEU Chapter 23

DEU 23 ©

23Any male person whose reproductive organs have been destroyed may not be included as one of Yahweh’s people.

2No illegitimate person or descendant of an illegitimate person, extending to the tenth generation, shall be included as one of Yahweh’s people.

3No one from the Ammon or Moab people groups shall be included as one of Yahweh’s people, extending to the tenth generation. 4One reason for this is that their leaders refused to give your ancestors food and water when they were traveling from Egypt to Canaan. Another reason is that they paid Balaam son of Beor from the town of Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse you Israelites. 5But Yahweh our God did not pay attention to Balaam; instead, he caused Balaam to bless your ancestors, because Yahweh loved them. 6As long as Israel is a nation, you must not do anything to cause things to go well for those two people groups to enable them to prosper.

7But do not despise anyone from the Edom people group, because they are descendants of your ancestor Isaac, just like you are. And do not despise people from Egypt, because they treated your ancestors well when they first lived in Egypt. 8The grandchildren of people from Edom and Egypt who live among you now may be included among Yahweh’s people.

9When your soldiers are living in camp in time of war, they must avoid doing things that would make them unacceptable to God. 10If any soldier becomes unacceptable to God because semen comes out of his body during the night, the next morning he must go outside the camp and stay there during that day. 11But in the evening of that day, he must bathe himself, and at sunset he will be allowed to come back into the camp.

12Your soldiers must have a toilet area outside the camp where you can go when you need to. 13When you go to fight against your enemies, carry a stick along along with your weapons, in order that when you need to defecate, you can dig a hole with the stick, and then cover up the hole when you have finished defecating. 14You must keep the camp acceptable to Yahweh our God, because he is with you in your camp to protect you and to enable you to defeat your enemies. Do not do anything disgraceful that would cause Yahweh to turn away from you.

15If slaves who escape from their masters come to you and request you to protect them, do not send them back to their masters. 16Allow them to stay among you, in whatever town they choose, and do not mistreat them.

17Do not allow any Israelite man or woman to become prostitutes at the temple. 18Also, do not allow any people who earned money from being a prostitute to bring any of that money into the temple of Yahweh our God, even if they solemnly promised to pay that money to him. Yahweh hates those who are prostitutes.

19When you lend money or food or anything else to a fellow Israelite, do not charge them interest. 20You are allowed to charge interest when you lend money to foreigners who live in your land, but not when you lend money to Israelites. Do this in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

21When you solemnly promise to give something to Yahweh your God or to do something for him, do not delay in doing it. Yahweh expects you to do what you promised, and if you do not do it, you will be committing a sin. 22But if you do not solemnly promise to do something, that is not sinful. 23But if you voluntarily promise to do something, you must do it.

24When you walk through someone else’s vineyard, you are allowed to pick and eat as many grapes as you want, but you must not put any in a container and take them away. 25When you walk along a path in someone else’s field of grain, you are allowed to pluck some of the grain and eat it, but you must not cut any grain with a sickle and take it with you.

DEU 23 ©

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