Deuteronomy 23:4-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: hand because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.

⁵ And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.

⁶ Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.

⁷ Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

⁸ They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.

⁹ When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.