Deuteronomy 23:9

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“When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.”

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BSBPD

“When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 23:9 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 6:18But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it.
  2. Joshua 7:11Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
  3. Judges 20:26Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
  4. 2 Chronicles 19:4Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
  5. 2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
  6. 2 Chronicles 31:20So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
  7. 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.”
  8. Luke 3:14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
  9. Revelation 19:11Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.

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