◄ Deuteronomy 23:3 ►
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Good News Translation
"No Ammonite or Moabite--or any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation--may be included among the LORD's people.

New Revised Standard Version
No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD,

Contemporary English Version
No Ammonites or Moabites, or any of their descendants for ten generations, can become part of Israel, the LORD's people.

New American Bible
No Ammonite or Moabite may ever come into the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of their descendants even to the tenth generation come into the assembly of the LORD,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Ruth 4:6,10-22 He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego. . . .

Nehemiah 4:3,7 Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall. . . .

Nehemiah 13:1,2,23 And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever: . . .

Isaiah 56:3 And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord, speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree.

Context
Exclusion from the Congregation
…2A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. 3The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:4Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:43
You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy.

Deuteronomy 23:2
A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

Nehemiah 13:1
And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:

Nehemiah 13:2
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.

Jeremiah 49:1
Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?

Lamentations 1:10
Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.

Deuteronomy 23:2
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