Deuteronomy 23:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Neither let the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD will surely separate me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

Isaiah 57:3

But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Leviticus 21:20

or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

Zechariah 9:6

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

John 8:41

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Deuteronomy 23:1

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 23:3

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of the LORD for ever:

Hebrews 12:8

But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.