Deuteronomy 23:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² “No bastard shall enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A person begotten out of wedlock shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall his descendants not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

² A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

² No one born of an illegitimate marriage can belong to the LORD’s assembly either. Not even the tenth generation of such children can belong to the LORD’s assembly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The offspring of a harlot, that is, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

Deuteronomy 23:2 Cross References

Isaiah 56:3

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.

Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;

Zechariah 9:6

a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.

John 8:41

You do what your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.”

Deuteronomy 23:1

“He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3

“No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the Lord for ever;

Hebrews 12:8

If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.