Deuteronomy 23:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 9:6 : 6 And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.
  • John 8:41 : 41 You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
  • Heb 12:8 : 8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
  • Isa 57:3 : 3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

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

  • 1No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

  • Deut 23:8-9
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    8Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

    9When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.

  • 1On 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;

  • 6And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.

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

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    17No 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.

    18Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • 3But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

  • 26And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

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

  • 3Say 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.

  • Lev 18:21-22
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    21And 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.

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

  • Lev 21:15-18
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    15And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

    16And the Lord said to Moses,

    17Say 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.

    18For 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,

  • 19He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

  • Num 18:22-23
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    22In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

    23But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

  • 24Do 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 17:1-2
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    1No 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.

    2If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • 9When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • 12For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

  • Lev 18:26-27
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    26So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

    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;)

  • 2And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

  • 9And 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.

  • 3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • 3And 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.

  • 16For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • 23But 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.

  • 10If he has a son who is a thief, a taker of life, who does any of these things,

  • 20Or 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;

  • 9For 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.

  • 2You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

  • 2And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.

  • 8But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

  • 21And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

  • 18A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • 20As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • 30But 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.

  • 31Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

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

  • 10Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

  • 13Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

  • 30The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.