Deuteronomy Chapter 23
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asv (asv) - eBible.org engASV USFM
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his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
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Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.
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And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him.
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And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself.
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Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
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A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
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If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
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thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
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When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.
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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
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Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
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Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
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Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
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If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
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and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;
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then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate;
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and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
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and, lo, he hath laid shameful things
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to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
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And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
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and they shall fine him a hundred
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shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
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But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
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then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
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If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext
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He that is a eunuch, whether he have been crushed or cut, shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
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A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even their tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah for ever;
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because they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
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But Jehovah thyGod would not listen to Balaam; and Jehovah thyGod turned the curse into blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thyGod loved thee.
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Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
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Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.
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Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
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When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing.
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If there be with thee a man that is not clean from what hath happened in the night, then shall he go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp;
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and it shall be, towards evening, he shall bathe in water: and at the going down of the sun he may come inside the camp.
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Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp, and shalt go forth thither.
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And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons, and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee.
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For Jehovah thyGod walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; and thy camp shall be holy, that he see nothing unseemly with thee, and turn away from thee.
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Thou shalt not hand over to his master a bondman that hath escaped from his master unto thee:
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he shall dwell with thee, even in thy midst, in the place that he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it seemeth good to him; thou shalt not oppress him.
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There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.
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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thyGod for any vow; for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah thyGod.
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Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest:
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of a foreigner thou mayest take interest, but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest; that Jehovah thyGod may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thyGod, thou shalt not delay to perform it; for Jehovah thyGod will certainly require it of thee, and it shall be sin in thee.
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But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
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What is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do, as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thyGod, the voluntary-offering that thou hast promised with thy mouth.
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When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayest eat grapes thy fill, according to thy desire, but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
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When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not wave the sickle against thy neighbour's standing corn.
lxxbrent (lxxbrent) - Septuagint (Brenton 1851) eBible USFM
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A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
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He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.
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[One born] of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.
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The Ammanite and Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even until the tenth generation he shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even for ever:
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because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when ye went out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse thee.
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But the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord thy God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord thy God loved thee.
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Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days for ever.
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Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
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If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.
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And if thou shouldest go forth to engage with thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every wicked thing.
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If there should be in thee a man who is not clean by reason of his issue by night, then he shall go forth out of the camp, and he shall not enter into the camp.
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And it shall come to pass toward evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun has gone down, he shall go into the camp.
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And thou shalt have a place outside of the camp, and thou shalt go out thither,
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and thou shalt have a trowel on thy girdle; and it shall come to pass when thou wouldest relieve thyself abroad, that thou shalt dig with it, and shalt bring back the earth and cover thy nuisance.
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Because the Lord thy God walks in thy camp to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemy before thy face; and thy camp shall be holy, and there shall not appear in thee a disgraceful thing, and [so] he shall turn away from thee.
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Thou shalt not deliver a servant to his master, who [coming] from his master attaches himself to thee.
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He shall dwell with thee, he shall dwell among you where he shall please; thou shalt not afflict him.
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There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.
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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
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Thou shalt not lend to thy brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which thou mayest lend out.
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Thou mayest lend on usury to a stranger, but to thy brother thou shalt not lend on usury; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works upon the land, into which thou art entering to inherit it.
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And if thou wilt vow a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and [otherwise] it shall be sin in thee.
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But if thou shouldest be unwilling to vow, it is not sin in thee.
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Thou shalt observe the words that proceed from between thy lips; and as thou hast vowed a gift to the Lord God, [so] shalt thou do that which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.
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And if thou shouldest go into the corn field of thy neighbour, then thou mayest gather the ears with thy hands; but thou shalt not put the sickle to thy neighbour's corn.
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And if thou shouldest go into the vineyard of thy neighbour, thou shalt eat grapes sufficient to satisfy thy desire; but thou mayest not put them into a vessel.
vul1914 (vul1914) - Vulgate 1914 UTF-8 (sacredbible.org)
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Non intravit eunuchus attritis vel amputatis testiculis et abscisso veretro, ecclesiam Domini.
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Non ingredietur mamzer, hoc est, de scorto natus, in ecclesiam Domini, usque ad decimam generationem.
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Ammonites et Moabites etiam post decimam generationem non intrabunt ecclesiam Domini, in æternum:
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quia noluerunt vobis occurrere cum pane et aqua in via quando egressi estis de Ægypto: et quia conduxerunt contra te Balaam filium Beor de Mesopotamia Syriæ, ut malediceret tibi:
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et noluit Dominus Deus tuus audire Balaam, vertitque maledictionem eius in benedictionem tuam, eo quod diligeret te.
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Non facies cum eis pacem, nec quæras eis bona cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ in sempiternum.
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Non abominaberis Idumæum, quia frater tuus est: nec Ægyptium, quia advena fuisti in terra eius.
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Qui nati fuerint ex eis, tertia generatione intrabunt in ecclesiam Domini.
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Quando egressus fueris adversus hostes tuos in pugnam, custodies te ab omni re mala.
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Si fuerit inter vos homo, qui nocturno pollutus sit somnio, egredietur extra castra,
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et non revertetur, priusquam ad vesperam lavetur aqua: et post solis occasum regredietur in castra.
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Habebis locum extra castra, ad quem egrediaris ad requisita naturæ,
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gerens paxillum in balteo. cumque sederis, fodies per circuitum, et egesta humo operies
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quo revelatus es (Dominus enim Deus tuus ambulat in medio castrorum, ut eruat te, et tradat tibi inimicos tuos) et sint castra tua sancta, et nihil in eis appareat fœditatis ne derelinquat te.
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Non trades servum Domino suo, qui ad te confugerit.
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habitabit tecum in loco, qui ei placuerit, et in una urbium tuarum requiescet: ne contristes eum.
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Non erit meretrix de filiabus Israel, nec scortator de filiis Israel.
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Non offeres mercedem prostibuli, nec pretium canis in domo Domini Dei tui, quidquid illud est quod voveris: quia abominatio est utrumque apud Dominum Deum tuum.
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Non fœnerabis fratri tuo ad usuram pecuniam, nec fruges, nec quamlibet aliam rem:
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sed alieno. Fratri autem tuo absque usura id, quo indiget, commodabis: ut benedicat tibi Dominus Deus tuus in omni opere tuo in Terra, ad quam ingredieris possidendam.
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Cum votum voveris Domino Deo tuo, non tardabis reddere: quia requiret illud Dominus Deus tuus. et si moratus fueris, reputabitur tibi in peccatum.
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Si nolueris polliceri, absque peccato eris.
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Quod autem semel egressum est de labiis tuis, observabis, et facies sicut promisisti Domino Deo tuo, et propria voluntate et ore tuo locutus es.
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Ingressus vineam proximi tui, comede uvas quantum tibi placuerit: foras autem ne efferas tecum.
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Si intraveris in segetem amici tui, franges spicas, et manu conteres: falce autem non metes.
web (web) - WorldEnglish.Bible — CC0 modern update of ASV
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He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly.
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A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into the LORD’s assembly.
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An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into the LORD’s assembly forever,
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because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
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Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.
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You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
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You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
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The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the LORD’s assembly.
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When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
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If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;
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but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
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You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.
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You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;
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for the LORD your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
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You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.
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He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
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There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
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You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
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You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
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When you vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
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But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.
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You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to the LORD your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
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When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.
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When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
ylt (ylt) - Bible.com YLT98 plain UTF-8
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`One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;
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a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
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`An Ammonite and a Moabite doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of them doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah--to the age;
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because that they have not come before you with bread and with water in the way, in your coming out from Egypt, and because he hath hired against thee Balaam son of Beor, of Pethor of Aram-Naharaim, to revile thee;
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and Jehovah thy God hath not been willing to hearken unto Balaam, and Jehovah thy God doth turn for thee the reviling to a blessing, because Jehovah thy God hath loved thee;
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thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days--to the age.
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`Thou dost not abominate an Edomite, for thy brother he <FI>is<Fi> ; thou dost not abominate an Egyptian, for a sojourner thou hast been in his land;
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sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
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`When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing.
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`When there is in thee a man who is not clean, from an accident at night--then he hath gone out unto the outside of the camp--he doth not come in unto the midst of the camp--
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and it hath been, at the turning of the evening, he doth bathe with water, and at the going in of the sun he doth come in unto the midst of the camp.
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`And a station thou hast at the outside of the camp, and thou hast gone out thither without,
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and a nail thou hast on thy staff, and it hath been, in thy sitting without, that thou hast digged with it, and turned back, and covered thy filth;
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for Jehovah thy God is walking up and down in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies before thee, and thy camp hath been holy, and He doth not see in thee the nakedness of anything, and hath turned back from after thee.
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`Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord;
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with thee he doth dwell, in thy midst, in the place which he chooseth within one of thy gates, where it is pleasing to him; thou dost not oppress him.
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`There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
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thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of Jehovah thy God <FI>are<Fi> even both of them.
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`Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.
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To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
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`When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou dost not delay to complete it; for Jehovah thy God doth certainly require it from thee, and it hath been in thee--sin.
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`And when thou forbearest to vow, it is not in thee a sin.
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The produce of thy lips thou dost keep, and hast done <FI>it<Fi> , as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God; a free-will-offering, which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.
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`When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbour, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency; but into thy vessel thou dost not put <FI>any<Fi> .
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When thou comest in among the standing-corn of thy neighbour, then thou hast plucked the ears with thy hand, but a sickle thou dost not wave over the standing-corn of thy neighbour.
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Explain Like I'm 5
A long, long time ago, there was nothing at all - no earth, no sky, no animals, no people. It was all dark and empty. But God was there! God is so powerful that He can make anything just by speaking. So God said "Let there be light!" and BOOM! There was light everywhere! God saw that the light was beautiful and good. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night." This was the very first day when God started making our wonderful world!
Explain Like I'm 10
Before anything existed - no planets, stars, or life - God decided to create the universe. The earth started out as a dark, empty place covered with water. But God's Spirit was there, ready to bring order and beauty to everything. When God spoke and said "Let there be light," light immediately appeared because God's words have incredible power. God looked at the light and was pleased with what He had made. He organized time by separating light (day) from darkness (night), creating the first 24-hour period. This shows us that God is organized and purposeful in everything He does.
Explain Like I'm 15
Genesis 1:1-5 establishes fundamental theological truths about God and creation. The Hebrew word "bara" (created) indicates creation from nothing (ex nihilo), demonstrating God's absolute sovereignty and power. The phrase "without form and void" (tohu wa-bohu) describes a state of chaos that God transforms into order. The Spirit of God "hovering" or "brooding" over the waters suggests active, caring involvement in creation. The creation of light before the sun (created on day 4) indicates that God Himself is the ultimate source of light and energy. The establishment of day and night creates the framework of time, showing that God operates within orderly patterns while transcending them. This passage refutes both atheistic materialism and pantheism, establishing that God is both transcendent (separate from creation) and immanent (actively involved in it).