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Exclusion from the Congregation

Deuteronomy 23:8

In 11 translations

BSB
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
KJV
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
WEB
The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
ASV
The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
LSV
sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, enter into the assembly of YHWH.
YLT
sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
DBY
Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
DRC
They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.
GNV
The children that are begotten of them in their thirde generation, shall enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
JPS23:9
The children of the third generation that are born unto them may enter into the assembly of the LORD.
LXXE23:9
If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC23:9
בָּנִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־יִוָּלְד֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם דּ֣וֹר שְׁלִישִׁ֑י יָבֹ֥א לָהֶ֖ם בִּקְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃KJV:Deut.23.8
LXX-Br23:9
Υἱοὶ ἐὰν γεννηθῶσιν αὐτοῖς, γενεᾷ τρίτῃ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς ἐκκλησίαν Κυρίου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 20:5–6You 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, but showing…
  • Deuteronomy 23:1–3No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD. No 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…
  • Ephesians 2:12–13remember 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. But now in Christ Jesus you…
  • Romans 3:29–30Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

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  • 23:9 in some Bibles
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