Deuteronomy 23:3

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

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  • Neh 13:1-2 : 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.
  • Neh 13:23 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
  • Isa 56:3 : 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.
  • Ruth 4:6 : 6 And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.
  • Ruth 4:10-22 : 10 And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day. 11 And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem; 12 May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman. 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son. 14 And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel. 15 He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him. 16 And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it. 17 And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron; 19 And Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab; 20 And Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon; 21 And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed; 22 And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
  • Neh 4:3 : 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.
  • Neh 4:7 : 7 But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

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  • Deut 23:1-2
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    86%

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

    2One 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.

  • Neh 13:1
    84%

    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;

  • Deut 23:6-9
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    6Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

    7But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

    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.

  • Deut 23:4
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    4Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • Zeph 2:8-9
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    8My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.

    9For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

  • Gen 19:37-38
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    37And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

    38And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.

  • Exod 23:32-33
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    68%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

    33Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 23:17-18
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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.

  • Josh 23:12
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    12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • 2 Chr 20:10
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    10And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

  • Ezek 25:10
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    10To the children of the east I have given her for a heritage, as well as the children of Ammon, so that there may be no memory of her among the nations:

  • Deut 7:26
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    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.

  • Jer 25:21
    68%

    21Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,

  • Deut 14:3
    68%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Gen 15:16
    67%

    16And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

  • 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 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;)

  • Amos 2:1
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    1These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

  • Deut 17:1
    67%

    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.

  • Num 18:22
    67%

    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.

  • Lev 18:29
    67%

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

  • Deut 18:9
    67%

    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.

  • Jer 49:1
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    1About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?

  • Lev 22:3
    66%

    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.

  • Deut 12:31
    66%

    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.

  • Mic 2:5
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    5For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

  • Num 14:23
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    23They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

  • Josh 22:18
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    18That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.

  • Deut 2:9
    66%

    9And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.

  • Lev 20:23
    66%

    23And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • Num 22:3
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    3And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

  • Deut 1:35
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    35Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

  • Deut 2:19
    66%

    19And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the children of Lot.

  • Deut 2:37
    66%

    37But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to go.

  • Deut 25:16
    66%

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

  • Deut 24:4
    65%

    4Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

  • Exod 34:3
    65%

    3No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.

  • Lev 18:24
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    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:

  • Amos 1:13
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    13These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.