Do not let a son of a foreigner who has joined himself to Adonai say, ‘Adonai will surely exclude me from His people.” Nor let the eunuch say, ‘Behold, I am a dry tree.’”
Deuteronomy 23:2 - Tree of Life Version “No one with crushed or cut-off genitals is to enter the community of Adonai. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. |
Do not let a son of a foreigner who has joined himself to Adonai say, ‘Adonai will surely exclude me from His people.” Nor let the eunuch say, ‘Behold, I am a dry tree.’”
But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.
or a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect or a rash or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.
A mongrel people will live in Ashdod and I will cut off the Philistines’ pride.
You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born as illegitimate children—we have one Father, God Himself!”
“A man is not to take his father’s wife—he is not to expose his father’s nakedness.
No one born of forbidden relations is to enter the community of Adonai—even to the tenth generation none of his descendants are to enter the community of Adonai.
But if you are without discipline—something all have come to share—then you are illegitimate and not sons.