^3 (A)“An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever, ^4 (B)because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and ^(C)because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ^[a]Mesopotamia, to curse you.

¹² that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.