Deuteronomy 23:2

New Century Version

No one born to parents who were forbidden by law to marry may come into the meeting to worship the Lord. The descendants for ten generations may not come in either.

Cross References

Isaiah 56:3

Foreigners who have joined the Lord should not say, “The Lord will not accept me with his people.” The eunuch should not say, “Because I cannot have children, the Lord will not accept me.”

Isaiah 57:3

“Come here, you magicians! Come here, you children of prostitutes and those who take part in adultery!

Leviticus 21:20

hunchbacks, dwarfs, men who have something wrong with their eyes, men who have an itching disease or a skin disease, or men who have damaged sex glands.

Zechariah 9:6

Foreigners will live in Ashdod, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

John 8:41

So you are doing the things your own father did.” But they said, “We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have.”

Deuteronomy 23:1

No man who has had part of his sex organ cut off may come into the meeting to worship the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3

No Ammonite or Moabite may come into the meeting to worship the Lord, and none of their descendants for ten generations may come in.

Hebrews 12:8

If you are never disciplined (and every child must be disciplined), you are not true children.