Deuteronomy 23:8

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Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreigner in his land.

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  • Exod 20:5-6 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
  • Deut 23:1-3 : 1 A man shall not marry his father’s wife or dishonor his father’s bed. 2 No man who has been wounded in his private parts or whose reproductive organs have been severed may enter the assembly of the LORD. 3 No one born of an illegitimate union may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.
  • Rom 3:29-30 : 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not also the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles too. 30 Since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through the same faith.
  • Eph 2:12-13 : 12 were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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  • Deut 23:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1A man shall not marry his father’s wife or dishonor his father’s bed.

    2No man who has been wounded in his private parts or whose reproductive organs have been severed may enter the assembly of the LORD.

    3No one born of an illegitimate union may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.

  • Deut 23:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6But the LORD your God was not willing to listen to Balaam and turned his curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you.

    7You shall never pursue their peace or prosperity as long as you live.

  • Deut 29:22
    71%

    22The whole land will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

  • Ps 78:6
    70%

    6so that the next generation would know them—children yet to be born—and in turn they would rise and tell their children,

  • Joel 1:3
    70%

    3Tell it to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

  • Deut 4:25
    70%

    25When you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and if you act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,

  • Deut 5:9
    70%

    9You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.

  • Exod 20:5
    70%

    5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

  • Exod 34:7
    70%

    7Maintaining steadfast love to thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, but not leaving the guilty unpunished. He punishes the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."

  • Deut 23:9
    70%

    9The children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.

  • Ps 22:30
    69%

    30All the rich of the earth will feast and bow down; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—those who cannot keep themselves alive.

  • Gen 15:16
    68%

    16In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.

  • Isa 57:3
    68%

    3But as for you, come here, you offspring of sorceresses, you children of adulterers and prostitutes!

  • Amos 3:1
    68%

    1Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:

  • Num 14:18
    68%

    18'The LORD is slow to anger, abundant in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' iniquity upon the children to the third and fourth generation.'

  • Deut 7:3
    68%

    3Do not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Lev 22:3
    68%

    3Say to them: 'If any of your descendants in future generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD while he is ceremonially unclean, that person will be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.'

  • Ps 78:8
    68%

    8They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.

  • Neh 9:23
    68%

    23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had promised their ancestors they would enter and take possession of.

  • Prov 17:6
    67%

    6Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Ps 112:2
    67%

    2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

  • Exod 34:23
    67%

    23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

  • Num 18:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22From now on, the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and die.

    23The Levites shall perform the duties of the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for their sins. This is a perpetual ordinance for your generations, but they shall not have any inheritance among the Israelites.

  • Gen 50:23
    67%

    23He saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children, and also the children of Machir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.

  • Lev 8:3
    67%

    3And gather the entire congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

  • Exod 13:11
    67%

    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your ancestors, and gives it to you,

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    67%

    18They included the registration of all their dependents—their wives, their sons, and their daughters—throughout the entire congregation, as they sanctified themselves in faithfulness and holiness.

  • Deut 32:5
    67%

    5They have acted corruptly toward Him; they are not His children because of their defect—a crooked and perverse generation.

  • Job 21:8
    67%

    8Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

  • Jer 30:20
    66%

    20Their children will be as they were in former times, and their community will be established before Me. I will punish all who oppress them.

  • Gen 17:12
    66%

    12Every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, both those born in your household and those bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

  • Deut 11:21
    66%

    21so that your days and the days of your children may be prolonged in the land that the LORD swore to give to your ancestors, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

  • Ezek 47:22
    66%

    22You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you and have children. They are to be considered native-born Israelites and are to share the inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

  • Num 14:33
    66%

    33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

  • Deut 24:16
    66%

    16Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.

  • Num 8:9
    66%

    9Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the entire Israelite community.

  • Neh 13:1
    66%

    1On that day, the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and it was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God.

  • Deut 18:9
    66%

    9When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.

  • Rom 9:8
    66%

    8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

  • Deut 30:5
    66%

    5The LORD your God will bring you into the land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.

  • Judg 2:10
    66%

    10After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD or the works he had done for Israel.

  • 2 Chr 30:8
    66%

    8Now do not harden your necks as your ancestors did. Submit to the LORD; come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

  • Lev 12:3
    66%

    3On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin shall be circumcised.

  • Ps 127:3
    66%

    3Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

  • 1 Chr 28:8
    65%

    8Now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek all the commandments of the LORD your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance for your descendants forever.