Deuteronomy 23:1

New International Reader's Version

No man whose sex organs have been crushed or cut can join in worship with the Lord’s people.

Cross References

Lamentations 1:10

Jerusalem’s enemies took away all her treasures. Her people saw outsiders enter her temple. The Lord had commanded them not to do that.

Leviticus 18:8

“ ‘Do not have sex with any other wife of your father. That would bring shame on your father.

Galatians 3:28

There is no Jew or Gentile. There is no slave or free person. There is no male or female. That’s because you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:12

So then, what about troublemakers who try to get others to be circumcised? I wish they would go the whole way! I wish they would cut off everything that marks them as men!

Deuteronomy 23:8

The great-grandchildren of the Edomites and Egyptians can join in worship with the Lord’s people.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“May anyone who sleeps with his stepmother be under the Lord’s curse. That man brings shame on his father by doing that.” Then all the people will say, “Amen!”