Deuteronomy 23

¹An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

²A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

³The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

⁴Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: hand because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.

⁵And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.

⁶Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.

⁷Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

⁸They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.

⁹When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.

¹⁰If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.

¹¹And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.

¹²Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,