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Deuteronomy Chapter 23

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Deuteronomy

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The chapter continues Moses' instructions for the Israelites, covering the care of livestock and the prohibition against eating the meat of a living animal. It also details the treatment of the blind and lame, emphasizing compassion and the importance of not oppressing the vulnerable. Overall, the passage stresses justice, mercy, and the proper handling of animals.

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(1) He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
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Leviticus 21:17Leviticus 21:18Leviticus 21:19Leviticus 21:20Leviticus 21:21Leviticus 22:22Leviticus 22:23Leviticus 22:24Galatians 3:28Deuteronomy 23:2Deuteronomy 23:3Deuteronomy 23:8

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10I Kings 5:17

(2) 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.
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Isaiah 57:3Zechariah 9:6John 8:41Hebrews 12:8

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Deuteronomy 23:3Ezekiel 26:10Luke 13:24Hebrews 4:3Deuteronomy 23:8Matthew 12:45

(3) 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:
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Ruth 4:6Ruth 4:10Ruth 4:11Ruth 4:12Ruth 4:13Ruth 4:14Ruth 4:15Ruth 4:16Ruth 4:17Ruth 4:18Ruth 4:19Ruth 4:20

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Deuteronomy 23:2Ezekiel 26:10Luke 13:24Hebrews 4:3Deuteronomy 23:8Matthew 12:45

(4) Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
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Deuteronomy 2:28Deuteronomy 2:29Genesis 14:17Genesis 14:18I Samuel 25:11I Kings 18:4Isaiah 63:9Zechariah 2:8Matthew 25:40Acts 9:4Numbers 22:5Numbers 22:7

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Nehemiah 13:2Numbers 24:10Joshua 24:9Numbers 22:5

(5) Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
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Numbers 22:35Numbers 23:5Numbers 23:6Numbers 23:7Numbers 23:8Numbers 23:9Numbers 23:10Numbers 23:11Numbers 23:12Numbers 23:16Numbers 23:17Numbers 23:18

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Nehemiah 13:2Numbers 24:10I Samuel 20:17Malachi 1:2

(6) Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
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II Samuel 8:2II Samuel 12:31Ezra 9:12Nehemiah 13:23Nehemiah 13:24Nehemiah 13:25

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Zephaniah 2:3

(7) Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
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Genesis 25:24Genesis 25:25Genesis 25:26Genesis 25:30Numbers 20:14Obadiah 1:10Obadiah 1:11Obadiah 1:12Malachi 1:2Deuteronomy 10:19Genesis 45:17Genesis 45:18

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Ezekiel 16:4

(8) The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
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Deuteronomy 23:1Romans 3:29Romans 3:30Ephesians 2:12Ephesians 2:13Deuteronomy 23:2Deuteronomy 23:3Exodus 20:5Exodus 20:6

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Revelation 8:12II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:12Deuteronomy 23:2Deuteronomy 23:3

(9) When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
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Joshua 6:18Joshua 7:11Joshua 7:12Joshua 7:13Judges 20:26II Chronicles 19:4II Chronicles 20:3II Chronicles 20:4II Chronicles 20:5II Chronicles 20:6II Chronicles 20:7II Chronicles 20:8

(10) If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
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Leviticus 15:16Numbers 5:2Numbers 5:3I Corinthians 5:11I Corinthians 5:12I Corinthians 5:13

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Exodus 14:20Exodus 33:7Numbers 11:32Leviticus 14:8Numbers 19:9Leviticus 17:3

(11) But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
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Leviticus 11:25Leviticus 15:17Leviticus 15:18Leviticus 15:19Leviticus 15:20Leviticus 15:21Leviticus 15:22Leviticus 15:23Leviticus 14:9Leviticus 15:5Leviticus 15:11Leviticus 15:13

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Leviticus 14:8Proverbs 1:27Exodus 33:7

(12) Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
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Deuteronomy 23:10Exodus 33:7

(13) And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
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Ezekiel 24:6Ezekiel 24:7Ezekiel 24:8

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26Ezekiel 33:11Proverbs 1:27

(14) For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
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Genesis 17:1Leviticus 26:12II Corinthians 6:16

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Exodus 33:7Leviticus 5:2Exodus 14:20Leviticus 17:3Numbers 2:17Numbers 11:26

(15) Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
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I Samuel 30:15Obadiah 1:14

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Genesis 24:10Genesis 24:12Genesis 24:27Exodus 21:6II Kings 18:27Isaiah 36:12

(16) He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
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Isaiah 16:3Isaiah 16:4Luke 15:15Luke 15:16Luke 15:17Luke 15:18Luke 15:19Luke 15:20Luke 15:21Luke 15:22Luke 15:23Luke 15:24

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Revelation 21:13Nehemiah 13:19

(17) There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 22:21Deuteronomy 22:29Leviticus 19:29Proverbs 2:16Romans 1:26Genesis 19:4Genesis 19:5Judges 19:22I Kings 14:24I Kings 15:12I Kings 22:46II Kings 23:7

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Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(18) Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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Ezekiel 16:33Psalms 22:16Proverbs 26:11Isaiah 56:10Isaiah 56:11Matthew 7:6Philippians 3:2II Peter 2:22Revelation 22:15Deuteronomy 23:21Deuteronomy 12:6Leviticus 7:16

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II Kings 23:13

(19) Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
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Exodus 22:25Leviticus 25:35Leviticus 25:36Leviticus 25:37Nehemiah 5:1Nehemiah 5:2Nehemiah 5:3Nehemiah 5:4Nehemiah 5:5Nehemiah 5:6Nehemiah 5:7Psalms 15:5

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Jeremiah 15:10Deuteronomy 23:20Isaiah 24:2Leviticus 25:37Exodus 22:25Nehemiah 5:10

(20) Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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Deuteronomy 14:21Deuteronomy 15:3Leviticus 19:33Leviticus 19:34Deuteronomy 15:10Proverbs 19:17Isaiah 1:19Luke 14:14I Corinthians 15:58

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Deuteronomy 23:19Deuteronomy 30:16Deuteronomy 30:20Exodus 22:25Leviticus 25:37Deuteronomy 28:44

(21) When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
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Deuteronomy 23:18Genesis 28:20Genesis 35:1Genesis 35:2Genesis 35:3Leviticus 27:2Leviticus 27:3Leviticus 27:4Leviticus 27:5Leviticus 27:6Leviticus 27:7Leviticus 27:8

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Ecclesiastes 5:5Genesis 9:5Numbers 6:2Numbers 30:2Numbers 30:3Ecclesiastes 5:4

(22) But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
(23) That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
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Numbers 30:2Judges 11:30Judges 11:31Judges 11:35I Samuel 1:11Psalms 66:13Psalms 66:14Psalms 116:18Proverbs 20:25Ecclesiastes 5:4Ecclesiastes 5:5I Samuel 14:24

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Jeremiah 44:25

(24) When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
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Romans 12:13I Corinthians 10:26Hebrews 13:5

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Deuteronomy 30:20Deuteronomy 23:25Revelation 3:18I Kings 21:6Isaiah 5:4Exodus 20:17

(25) When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
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Matthew 12:1Matthew 12:2Mark 2:23Luke 6:1Luke 6:2

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Judges 15:5Leviticus 2:14Matthew 12:1Mark 2:23Exodus 22:6Luke 6:1

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