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Deuteronomy 23:8

6 You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.

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

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

9 When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.

10 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
KJV
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
WEB
The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the LORD’s assembly.
ASV
The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
DARBY
Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
BLB
The sons who are begotten to them, the third generation, may enter into the assembly of YHWH.
ÅB
Deres etterkommere i tredje ledd kan få være med i Herrens menighet.
OTB
Den tredje generasjonen av deres barn født til dem kan komme inn i Herrens forsamling.
B1930
Deres ætt i tredje ledd kan få være med i Herrens menighet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 20:5–6

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

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  • Ephesians 2:12–13

    remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

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  • Deuteronomy 23:1–3

    No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

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  • Romans 3:29–30

    Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

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