In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Deuteronomy 23:3 - Tree of Life Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation their descendants shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord forever, American Standard Version (1901) An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah for ever: Common English Bible Ammonites and Moabites can’t belong to the LORD’s assembly. Not even the tenth generation of such people can belong to the LORD’s assembly, as a rule, Catholic Public Domain Version The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord forever, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever: |
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
But we prayed to our God and stationed a guard against them day and night.
So I stationed people in the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. I stationed the people by families with their swords, spears and bows.
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.’”
About Ammon’s children, thus says Adonai: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then did Malcam dispossess Gad and his people settled in its towns?
The enemy has stretched his hand over all her treasures. She even saw nations enter her sanctuary— those You had commanded not to enter Your congregation.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
“No one with crushed or cut-off genitals is to enter the community of Adonai.
The kinsman said, “Then I cannot redeem it for myself, or else I might endanger my own inheritance. You, take my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”