Chapter 23
Moses specifies those who may and may not enter the congregation—He sets forth laws concerning sanitation, servants, usury, and vows.
1 He that is
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
3 An
4 Because they met you not with
5 Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the
6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
7 ¶Thou shalt not abhor an
8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
9 ¶When
10 ¶If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
12 ¶Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover
14 For the Lord thy God
15 ¶Thou shalt not deliver unto his
16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy
17 ¶There shall be no
18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
19 ¶Thou shalt not lend upon
20 Unto a
21 ¶When thou shalt
22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
24 ¶When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
25 When thou comest into the standing

