Deuteronomy 23

¹ No one emasculated by the crushing of his testicles or having his penis cut off shall come into the assembly of Yahweh. ² No bastard shall come into the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation from him may not come into the assembly of Yahweh. ³ No Ammonite or Moabite shall come into the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation from them shall not come into the assembly of Yahweh for the eon, ⁴ on the score that they did not succor you with bread and with water along the main road when you came forth from Egypt and that they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor, Aram-naharayim, to maledict you. ⁵ But Yahweh your Elohim would not hearken to Balaam. And Yahweh your Elohim turned the malediction into a blessing for you, for Yahweh your Elohim loves you. ⁶ You shall neither inquire after their welfare nor their good all your days for the eon. ⁷ You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you became a sojourner in his country. ⁸ As for the sons who shall be born to them, the third generation may come into the assembly of Yahweh. ⁹ When you go forth in camp against your enemies then you must be on guard against any evil matter. ¹⁰ In case there should be a man among you who is not clean because of a happening of the night, then he must go forth outside the camp; he shall not come into the midst of the camp. ¹¹ When it comes to be just before evening he shall wash in water, and as the sun sets he may come into the midst of the camp. ¹² A place aside shall come to be for you outside the camp, and you must go forth there outside. ¹³ You shall come to have a peg with your gear so it will come to be when you have squatted outside that you must delve with it, then turn back and cover your excrement. ¹⁴ For Yahweh your Elohim is walking about within your camp to rescue you and to deliver up your enemies before you; hence your camps will come to be holy so that He should not see among you the nakedness of anything and turn away from following you. ¹⁵ You shall not surrender to his foreign lord a servant who rescues himself to you from his lord. ¹⁶ With you shall he dwell, among you, in the place that he shall choose within one of your gates, as seems good to him. You shall not tyrannize over him. ¹⁷ There shall come to be neither a cult-prostitute from the daughters of Israel, nor shall there come to be a cult-prostitute from the sons of Israel. ¹⁸ You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the price of a cur into the house of Yahweh your Elohim for any vow offering, for they are an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim, indeed both of them. ¹⁹ You shall not charge interest to your brother: interest on silver, interest on food, interest on anything else that might earn interest. ²⁰ To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, so that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you in every undertaking of your hand in the land where you are coming to tenant it. ²¹ In case you should vow a vow to Yahweh your Elohim, you shall not delay to perform it, for Yahweh your Elohim shall require, yea require it from you, and it would be sin on your part. ²² Yet in case you should forbear to vow, it shall not become sin on your part. ²³ The utterance of your lips you shall observe, and you must do just as you have vowed to Yahweh your Elohim; it is a voluntary offering that you have spoken of with your mouth. ²⁴ In case you should come into the vineyard of your associate, then you may eat grapes to your soul's desire, to your satisfaction, but you shall put none into your vessel. ²⁵ In case you should come into the raised grain of your associate, then you may pluck snippets with your hand, yet no scythe shall you swing on the raised grain of your associate.