Deuteronomy 23:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־יָבֹ֥א מַמְזֵ֖ר בִּקְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם דּ֣וֹר עֲשִׂירִ֔י לֹא־יָ֥בֹא ל֖וֹ בִּקְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃ ס

Transliteration

Not yābōʾ mamzēr in-qəhal YHWH gam dôr ʿăśîrî not-yābōʾ to-him in-qəhal YHWH

Grammar Details

• *yābōʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - shall enter/come
• *mamzēr*: masculine singular noun - illegitimate child/person of mixed ancestry
• *bi*: preposition - in/into
• *qəhal*: masculine singular construct - assembly/congregation of
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/the LORD
• *gam*: adverb - also/even
• *dôr*: masculine singular noun - generation
• *ʿăśîrî*: ordinal number, masculine singular - tenth
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to him

Word Meanings

• *mamzēr*: illegitimate child/bastard/person of mixed ancestry/offspring of prohibited union
• *dôr*: generation/period/dwelling/circle
• *ʿăśîrî*: tenth (generation)

Referenced Verses

• Neh 13:1-2 : 1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever, 2 because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with 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 also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
• Isa 56:3 : 3 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
• Ruth 4:6 : 6 The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you; for I can't redeem it.
• Ruth 4:10-22 : 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day. 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem: 12 and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman. 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son. 14 The women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel. 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him. 16 Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it. 17 The women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they named him Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18 Now this is the history of 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, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.
• Neh 4:7 : 7 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;