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Exclusion from the Congregation

Deuteronomy 23:1

In 11 translations

BSB
No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
KJV
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
WEB
He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
ASV
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
LSV
“No one wounded, bruised, or cut in the genitals enters into the assembly of YHWH;
YLT
'One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;
DBY
He that is a eunuch, whether he have been crushed or cut, shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
DRC
An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.
GNV
None that is hurt by bursting, or that hath his priuie member cut off, shall enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
JPS23:2
He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.
LXXE23:2
He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC23:2
לֹֽא־יָבֹ֧א פְצֽוּעַ־דַּכָּ֛א וּכְר֥וּת שָׁפְכָ֖ה בִּקְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃KJV:Deut.23.1
LXX-Br23:2
Οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται θλαδίας, οὐδὲ ἀποκεκομμένος, εἰς ἐκκλησίαν Κυρίου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Isaiah 56:3–4Let 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.” For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep…
  • Nehemiah 13:1–3At 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, because they had not met the…
  • Leviticus 21:17–21“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. No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured,…
  • Deuteronomy 23:2–3No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation. No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even…
  • 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.
  • Deuteronomy 23:8The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
  • Leviticus 22:22–24You 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…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 23:2 in some Bibles
  • 23:1 in most Bibles

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