Deuteronomy 23

New International Version

Exclusion From the Assembly

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

²No one born of a forbidden marriage^[b] nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.

³No Ammonite^(B) or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.^(C) ⁴For they did not come to meet you with bread and water^(D) on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam^(E) son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim^[c]^(F) to pronounce a curse on you.^(G) ⁵However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse^(H) into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves^(I) you. ⁶Do not seek a treaty^(J) of friendship with them as long as you live.^(K)

⁷Do not despise an Edomite,^(L) for the Edomites are related to you.^(M) Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.^(N) ⁸The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

Uncleanness in the Camp

⁹When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.^(O) ¹⁰If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.^(P) ¹¹But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset^(Q) he may return to the camp.^(R)

¹²Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. ¹³As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. ¹⁴For the Lord your God moves^(S) about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy,^(T) so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

Miscellaneous Laws

¹⁵If a slave has taken refuge^(U) with you, do not hand them over to their master.^(V) ¹⁶Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress^(W) them.

¹⁷No Israelite man^(X) or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.^(Y) ¹⁸You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute^[d] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.^(Z)

¹⁹Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.^(AA) ²⁰You may charge a foreigner^(AB) interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless^(AC) you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

²¹If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it,^(AD) for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.^(AE) ²²But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.^(AF) ²³Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the Lord your God with your own mouth.

²⁴If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. ²⁵If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.^(AG)

Notas al pie

Deuteronomy 23:1 In Hebrew texts 23:1-25 is numbered 23:2-26.
Deuteronomy 23:2 Or one of illegitimate birth
Deuteronomy 23:4 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog

Isaiah 50

New International Version

Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience

50 This is what the Lord says:

“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce^(A)
    with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
    did I sell^(B) you?
Because of your sins^(C) you were sold;^(D)
    because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
²When I came, why was there no one?
    When I called, why was there no one to answer?^(E)
Was my arm too short^(F) to deliver you?
    Do I lack the strength^(G) to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke^(H) I dry up the sea,^(I)
    I turn rivers into a desert;^(J)
their fish rot for lack of water
    and die of thirst.
³I clothe the heavens with darkness^(K)
    and make sackcloth^(L) its covering.”

⁴The Sovereign Lord^(M) has given me a well-instructed tongue,^(N)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.^(O)
He wakens me morning by morning,^(P)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.^(Q)
⁵The Sovereign Lord^(R) has opened my ears;^(S)
    I have not been rebellious,^(T)
    I have not turned away.
⁶I offered my back to those who beat^(U) me,
    my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;^(V)
I did not hide my face
    from mocking and spitting.^(W)
⁷Because the Sovereign Lord^(X) helps^(Y) me,
    I will not be disgraced.
Therefore have I set my face like flint,^(Z)
    and I know I will not be put to shame.^(AA)
⁸He who vindicates^(AB) me is near.^(AC)
    Who then will bring charges against me?^(AD)
    Let us face each other!^(AE)
Who is my accuser?
    Let him confront me!
⁹It is the Sovereign Lord^(AF) who helps^(AG) me.
    Who will condemn^(AH) me?
They will all wear out like a garment;
    the moths^(AI) will eat them up.

¹⁰Who among you fears^(AJ) the Lord
    and obeys^(AK) the word of his servant?^(AL)
Let the one who walks in the dark,
    who has no light,^(AM)
trust^(AN) in the name of the Lord
    and rely on their God.
¹¹But now, all you who light fires
    and provide yourselves with flaming torches,^(AO)
go, walk in the light of your fires^(AP)
    and of the torches you have set ablaze.
This is what you shall receive from my hand:^(AQ)
    You will lie down in torment.^(AR)