Deuteronomy 23:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.”
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“No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 23:1 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
- Leviticus 21:17“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
- Leviticus 22:22You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- Leviticus 22:24You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.
- Deuteronomy 23:2No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
- Deuteronomy 23:8The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 27:20‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
- Isaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
- Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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