Deuteronomy 23:1

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No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:17-21 : 17 Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God. 18 For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth, 19 Or a man with broken feet or hands, 20 Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged; 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings.
  • Lev 22:22-24 : 22 Anything blind or broken or damaged or having any disease or any mark on it may not be offered to the Lord; you may not make an offering of it by fire on the altar to the Lord. 23 An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath. 24 An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land.
  • Deut 23:2-3 : 2 One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation. 3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:
  • Deut 23:8 : 8 Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.
  • Neh 13:1-3 : 1 On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God; 2 Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God. 3 So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.
  • Isa 56:3-4 : 3 And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree. 4 For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
  • Lam 1:10 : 10 The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 23:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2 One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.

    3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:

  • Lev 21:15-21
    7 verses
    76%

    15 And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

    17 Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God.

    18 For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth,

    19 Or a man with broken feet or hands,

    20 Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;

    21 No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings.

  • Ezek 44:9
    74%

    9 For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.

  • Gen 17:14
    73%

    14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

  • Lev 17:9
    72%

    9 And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people.

  • Lev 18:29
    72%

    29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

  • Lev 22:22
    71%

    22 Anything blind or broken or damaged or having any disease or any mark on it may not be offered to the Lord; you may not make an offering of it by fire on the altar to the Lord.

  • Lev 22:24
    70%

    24 An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land.

  • Lev 21:23
    70%

    23 But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.

  • Lev 15:16
    70%

    16 And if a man's seed goes out from him, then all his body will have to be bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 21:5
    70%

    5 They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.

  • Lev 17:4
    70%

    4 And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:

  • Lev 22:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.

    4 No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;

  • Num 19:20
    70%

    20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

  • Num 15:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30 But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.

    31 Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.

  • Lev 20:18
    69%

    18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

  • Deut 23:17
    69%

    17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

  • Lev 18:19
    69%

    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

  • Lev 19:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27 The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

    28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

  • Isa 56:3
    68%

    3 And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.

  • Mic 2:5
    68%

    5 For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

  • Matt 18:8
    68%

    8 And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.

  • Lev 18:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

    22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • Lev 23:29
    68%

    29 For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people.

  • Mal 2:12
    68%

    12 The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.

  • Lev 15:3
    68%

    3 If the flow goes on or if the part is stopped up, to keep back the flow, he is still unclean.

  • Lev 15:32
    68%

    32 This is the law for the man who has a flow from his body, or whose seed goes from him so that he is unclean;

  • Deut 23:10
    68%

    10 If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it:

  • Lev 18:24
    68%

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Deut 15:21
    67%

    21 But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 14:1
    67%

    1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

  • Ezek 44:7
    67%

    7 To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

  • Deut 28:35
    67%

    35 The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

  • Matt 5:30
    67%

    30 And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

  • Lev 22:20
    67%

    20 But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.

  • Lev 7:21
    67%

    21 And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 18:6
    67%

    6 You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 18:27
    67%

    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • Deut 17:1
    67%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.