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No one born of an illicit union may come into the assembly of the Lord, nor any descendant of such even to the tenth generation may come into the assembly of the Lord.(A) (B)No Ammonite or Moabite may ever come into the assembly of the Lord, nor may any of their descendants even to the tenth generation come into the assembly of the Lord, because they would not come to meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor in Aram Naharaim, to curse you. The Lord, your God, would not listen to Balaam but turned his curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord, your God, loves you.

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No Ammonite(A) or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.(B) For they did not come to meet you with bread and water(C) on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam(D) son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim[a](E) to pronounce a curse on you.(F) However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse(G) into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves(H) you. Do not seek a treaty(I) of friendship with them as long as you live.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:4 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia

Your foes roared triumphantly in the place of your assembly;
    they set up their own tokens of victory.
They hacked away like a forester gathering boughs,
    swinging his ax in a thicket of trees.
They smashed all its engraved work,
    struck it with ax and pick.
They set your sanctuary on fire,
    profaned your name’s abode by razing it to the ground.(A)
They said in their hearts, “We will destroy them all!
    Burn all the assembly-places of God in the land!”

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Your foes roared(A) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards(B) as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.(C)
They smashed all the carved(D) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(E) the dwelling place(F) of your Name.(G)
They said in their hearts, “We will crush(H) them completely!”
    They burned(I) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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And foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
    to minister to him,
To love the name of the Lord,
    to become his servants—
All who keep the sabbath without profaning it
    and hold fast to my covenant,

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And foreigners(A) who bind themselves to the Lord
    to minister(B) to him,
to love the name(C) of the Lord,
    and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath(D) without desecrating it
    and who hold fast to my covenant—

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20 They shall bring all your kin from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. 21 Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the Lord.

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20 And they will bring(A) all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain(B) in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,”(C) says the Lord. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.(D) 21 And I will select some of them also to be priests(E) and Levites,” says the Lord.

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51 We are ashamed because we have heard taunts,
    disgrace covers our faces;
    strangers have entered sanctuaries in the Lord’s house.(A)

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51 “We are disgraced,(A)
    for we have been insulted
    and shame covers our faces,
because foreigners have entered
    the holy places of the Lord’s house.”(B)

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