Deuteronomy 23:2
A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.
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Referenced Verses
- Zech 9:6 : 6 A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.
- John 8:41 : 41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”
- Heb 12:8 : 8 But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.
- Isa 57:3 : 3 But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!
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3 An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so,
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1 Purity in Public Worship A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the LORD.
- Deut 23:8-92 verses80%
8 Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
9 Purity in Personal Hygiene When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.
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1 Further Reforms by Nehemiah On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God,
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6 A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.
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5 Therefore no one will assign you land in the LORD’s community.
- Deut 23:17-182 verses69%
17 Purity in Cultic Personnel There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.
18 You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the LORD your God.
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3 But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!
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26 You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
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29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.
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3 Say to them,‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.
- Lev 18:21-222 verses67%
21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!
22 You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.
- Lev 21:15-184 verses67%
15 He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”
16 Rules for the Priesthood The LORD spoke to Moses:
17 “Tell Aaron,‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.
18 Certainly no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose, or a limb too long,
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19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
- Num 18:22-232 verses67%
22 No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.
23 But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.
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24 Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
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1 You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.
2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant
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9 Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
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12 Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.
- Lev 18:26-272 verses66%
26 You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,
27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
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2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
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9 but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it to the LORD– that person will be cut off from his people.
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3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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3 No foreigner who becomes a follower of the LORD should say,‘The LORD will certainly exclude me from his people.’ The eunuch should not say,‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”
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16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
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23 but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
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10 “Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously
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20 or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.
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9 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary.
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2 “Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.
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2 Gilead’s wife also gave him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him,“You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, because you are another woman’s son.”
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8 But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.
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21 If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
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18 Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
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20 You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.
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30 Deliberate Sin“‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the LORD. That person must be cut off from among his people.
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31 You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
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19 “‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.
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10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
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13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
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30 The LORD says,“Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah.”