1No man who
is wounded by crushing or cutting off of the male organs shall enter into the
Lord's convocation.
2No illegitimate offspring shall enter into the
Lord's convocation. Even the tenth generation shall not take it upon themselves to enter into the convocation of the
Lord.
3No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter into the
Lord's convocation. Even the tenth generation shall not take it upon themselves to enter into the
Lord's convocation, ever,
4because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor in Mesopotamia against you to curse you.
5But the
Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and the
Lord your God changed the curse into a blessing for you, for the
Lord your God loves you.
6You shall not seek their peace or their welfare at any time, ever.
7You shall not regard the Edomite as abominable, for he
is your brother. You shall not regard the Egyptian as abominable, because you were a foreigner in his land.
8Any sons that are born to them
in the third generation may take it upon themselves to enter into the
Lord's convocation.
9When you go out of your camp against your enemies, you will keep yourself from every evil thing.
10If there is a man among you who becomes not clean,
by chance at night, he shall go out to the exterior of the camp; he shall not come
straight back into the interior of the camp.
11And it shall come to pass at the approach of evening
that he shall wash
himself with water, and when the sun sets, he may come into the interior of the camp.
12And you will have a place outside the camp, and you will go there – outside –
13and you will have a spade with your equipment, and it will be
the case that when you sit outside, you will dig with it and
then turn and cover your excrement.
14When the
Lord your God walks up and down in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to set your enemies before you, your camp will be holy, and he shall not see the nakedness of anything with you and turn aside from you.
15You shall not deliver back to his master a servant who has escaped to you from his master.
16He will remain with you in your midst, in a place which he chooses at one of your gates, for his welfare. You shall not afflict him.
17There shall be no prostitute among the daughters of Israel, and there shall be no male prostitute among the sons of Israel.
18You shall not bring a harlot's immoral earnings or the proceeds of the sale of a dog
to the house of the
Lord your God for any vow, for decidedly both of these
are an abomination to the
Lord your God.
19You shall not lend to your brother at interest – interest
in terms of money, interest
in terms of food,
or interest
in terms of anything that one might exact as interest.
20You may lend at interest to the foreigner, but you shall not lend at interest to your brother, so that the
Lord your God blesses you in every undertaking of yours on the land which you are coming to, to take possession of it.
21When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be tardy in fulfilling it, for the
Lord your God will certainly claim it from you, otherwise there will be sin in you.
22But if you refrain from vowing, there will be no sin in you.
23Keep the utterance of your lips, and carry
it out, in accordance with having vowed a freewill-offering to the
Lord your God –
that which you spoke with your mouth.
24When you go into your neighbour's vineyard, you may eat grapes as you desire – your fill – but you shall not put
them in
any container of yours.
25If you go into your neighbour's standing corn, you may pluck ears of corn in your hand, but you shall not swing the sickle into your neighbour's standing corn.
Reference(s) in Chapter 23: v.21 ↔ Matthew 5:33.