Exclusion From the Assembly

23 [a]No one who has been emasculated(A) by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:1 In Hebrew texts 23:1-25 is numbered 23:2-26.

23 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

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23 1 What men ought not to be admitted to office. 9 What they ought to avoid when they go to war. 15 Of the fugitive servant. 17 To flee all kinds of whoredom. 19 Of usury. 21 Of vows. 24 Of the neighbor’s vine and corn.

None that is hurt by bursting, or that hath his privy member cut off, [a]shall enter into the Congregation of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:1 Either to bear office, or to marry a wife.