Deuteronomy 23:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.”
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“The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 23:8 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 25:25The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
- Genesis 25:26After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
- Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Exodus 22:20If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
- Leviticus 19:34You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 10:19So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 23:1No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 30:11Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
- 1 Kings 3:1Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- Ezra 9:1After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
- Obadiah 1:10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
- Romans 3:29Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
- Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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