Deuteronomy 23:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever:

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  • Neh 13:1-2 : 1 On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written that the Ammonite and the Moabite should never enter the assembly of God forever, 2 because they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
  • Neh 13:23 : 23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;
  • Isa 56:3 : 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner, who has joined himself to the LORD, say, The LORD has utterly separated me from his people: nor let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
  • Ruth 4:6 : 6 The kinsman replied, 'I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it.'
  • Ruth 4:10-22 : 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that his name will not be cut off from his brethren or from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day.' 11 And all the people at the gate and the elders said, 'We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem. 12 And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the LORD will give you by this young woman.' 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 Then the women said to Naomi, 'Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman, and may his name be famous in Israel. 15 He shall be a restorer of your life and a provider for your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.' 16 Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap, and became his nurse. 17 The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, 'A son has been born to Naomi!' So they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez begat Hezron, 19 Hezron begat Ram, Ram begat Amminadab, 20 Amminadab begat Nahshon, Nahshon begat Salmon, 21 Salmon begat Boaz, Boaz begat Obed, 22 Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
  • Neh 4:3 : 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, Even what they build, if a fox goes up, he will break down their stone wall.
  • Neh 4:7 : 7 But it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were repaired, and the breaches began to be stopped, they were very angry,

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  • Deut 23:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1He that is wounded in the testicles, or has his private member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

    2A child born out of wedlock shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

  • Neh 13:1
    84%

    1On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written that the Ammonite and the Moabite should never enter the assembly of God forever,

  • Deut 23:6-9
    4 verses
    80%

    6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

    7You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.

    8The children that are born of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

    9When the army goes forth against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

  • Deut 23:4
    70%

    4Because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way, when you came out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

  • Zeph 2:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, by which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.

    9Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

  • Gen 19:37-38
    2 verses
    69%

    37And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

    38And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-Ammi: he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

  • Exod 23:32-33
    2 verses
    68%

    32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

    33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

  • Deut 23:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

    18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Josh 23:12
    68%

    12Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you:

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    68%

    10And now, see, the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them;

  • Ezek 25:10
    68%

    10To the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

  • Deut 7:26
    68%

    26Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Jer 25:21
    68%

    21Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon,

  • Deut 14:3
    68%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Gen 15:16
    67%

    16But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

  • Lev 18:21-22
    2 verses
    67%

    21And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

    22You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.

  • Lev 18:26-27
    2 verses
    67%

    26You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger who sojourns among you:

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

  • Amos 2:1
    67%

    1Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

  • Deut 17:1
    67%

    1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Num 18:22
    67%

    22Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • Lev 18:29
    67%

    29For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

  • Deut 18:9
    67%

    9When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Jer 49:1
    66%

    1Concerning the Ammonites, thus says the LORD: Does Israel have no sons? Does he have no heir? Why then does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?

  • Lev 22:3
    66%

    3Say unto them, Whoever he be of all your descendants throughout your generations, that approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel dedicate unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

  • Deut 12:31
    66%

    31You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Mic 2:5
    66%

    5Therefore you shall have none who shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

  • Num 14:23
    66%

    23Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

  • Josh 22:18
    66%

    18But that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? And it will be, seeing you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

  • Deut 2:9
    66%

    9And the LORD said unto me, Do not distress the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.

  • Lev 20:23
    66%

    23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Num 22:3
    66%

    3And Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 1:35
    66%

    35Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

  • Deut 2:19
    66%

    19And when you come near against the children of Ammon, do not distress them nor meddle with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.

  • Deut 2:37
    66%

    37Only to the land of the children of Ammon you did not come, nor to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbade us.

  • Deut 25:16
    66%

    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 24:4
    65%

    4Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

  • Exod 34:3
    65%

    3No one shall come up with you, nor let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds graze in front of that mountain.

  • Lev 18:24
    65%

    24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • Amos 1:13
    65%

    13Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead to enlarge their border: