“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut
off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
“No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the
LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may
enter the assembly of the LORD.
“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even
to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the
LORD forever, because they did not meet you with bread and with
water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they
hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse you. But the LORD your God would not listen
to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a
blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you. You shall
not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
“You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You
shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his
land. Children born to them in the third generation may enter the
assembly of the LORD.
“When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep
yourself from every evil thing.
“If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal
emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come
inside the camp, but when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in
water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.
“You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to
it. And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit
down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover
up your excrement. Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of
your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you,
therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything
indecent among you and turn away from you.
“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from
his master to you. He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the
place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it
suits him. You shall not wrong him.
“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and
none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute. You shall
not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the
house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of
these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest
on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for
interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not
charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you
in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take
possession of it.
“If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay
fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you,
and you will be guilty of sin. But if you refrain from vowing, you
will not be guilty of sin. You shall be careful to do what has
passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your
God what you have promised with your mouth.
“If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill
of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your
bag. If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck
the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your
neighbor's standing grain.
