23:1   " No one who has become emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

23:2   "No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

23:3  " No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the LORD,

23:4   because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

23:5   "Nevertheless, the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God loves you.

23:6   " You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

23:7   "You shall not detest an Edomite, for you acknowledge him as your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you dwelt as an alien in his land.

23:8   "The sons of the third generation who have become born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

23:9  "When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

23:10   " If any man becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.

23:11   " If any man becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.

23:12   "You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there,

23:13   and you shall have a spade among your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement.

23:14   "Since the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must remain holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

23:15   " You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

23:16   "He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him.

23:17   " None of the daughters of Israel shall serve as a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel serve as a cult prostitute.

23:18   "You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God for any votive offering, for both of these represent an abomination to the LORD your God.

23:19   " You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or lend anything at interest.

23:20  " You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you will soon enter to possess.

23:21  " When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for you would sin by doing so, and the LORD your God will surely require it of you.

23:22   "However, if you refrain from vowing, you would not sin .

23:23   "You shall carefully perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised.

23:24   "When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you feel fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your basket.

23:25  "When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.