Deuteronomy 23:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Those born of an illicit union shall not come into the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall come into the assembly of the Lord.

Cross References

Isaiah 56:3

Do not let the foreigner joined to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people,” and do not let the eunuch say, “I am just a dry tree.”

Isaiah 57:3

But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

Leviticus 21:20

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

Zechariah 9:6

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

John 8:41

You are indeed doing what your father does.” They said to him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, God himself.”

Deuteronomy 23:1

“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall come into the assembly of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3

“No Ammonite or Moabite shall come into the assembly of the Lord even to the tenth generation. None of their descendants shall come into the assembly of the Lord forever,

Hebrews 12:8

If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.