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)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:4 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever:

Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

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16 I was a father to the needy;(A)
    I took up the case(B) of the stranger.(C)

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16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,
    for my door was always open to the traveler(A)

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32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

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35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,(A)

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35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

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Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,(A) for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.(B)

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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

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