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¹A gelding when his stones be broken, either cut away, and his rod cut off, he shall not enter into the church of the Lord.

²A child born of whoredom shall not enter into the church of the Lord, unto the tenth generation.

³Ammonites and Moabites, yea after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord without end;

⁴for they would not come to you with bread and water in the way, when ye went out of Egypt; and for they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, of Mesopotamia of Syria, that he should curse thee;

⁵and thy Lord God would not hear Balaam, and God turned his curse into thy blessing, for he loved thee.

⁶Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither thou shalt seek good things to them, in all the days of thy life into without end.

⁷Thou shalt not loathe a man of Idumea, for he is thy brother, neither of a man of Egypt, for thou were a comeling in the land of him.

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

⁹When thou shalt go out into battle against thine enemies, thou shalt keep thee from all evil thing.

¹⁰If a man is among you, that is defouled in his night sleep, he shall go out of your tents; and he shall not turn again

¹¹before that he be washed in water at the eventide, and after the going down of the sun, he shall turn again into the tents.

¹²Thou shalt have a place without the tents, to which thou shalt go out to do the needful things of mankind;

¹³and thou shalt bear a little stake in thy girdle; and when thou hast set, thou shalt dig about, and thou shalt cover with earth things voided out, where thou art relieved.

¹⁴For thy Lord God goeth in midst of the tents, that he deliver thee, and betake thine enemies to thee, that thy tents be holy, and nothing of filth appear in them, lest for uncleanness he forsake thee.

¹⁵Thou shalt not take a servant to his lord, which fleeth to thee;

¹⁶he shall dwell with thee in the place that pleaseth him, and he shall abide in one of thy cities; and make thou not him sorry, or heavy.

¹⁷None whore/No strumpet shall be of the daughters of Israel, neither a lecher of the sons of Israel.

¹⁸Thou shalt not offer the hire of an whorehouse, neither the price of a dog, in the house of thy Lord God, whatever thing it is that thou hast avowed; for ever either is abomination before thy Lord God.

¹⁹Thou shalt not lend to thy brother to usury, money, neither fruits, neither any other thing,

²⁰but to an alien. For thou shalt lend to thy brother without usury that that he needeth, that thy Lord God bless thee in all thy work in the land to which thou shalt enter to wield.

²¹When thou makest a vow to thy Lord God, thou shalt not tarry to yield it, for thy Lord God shall ask that of thee; and if thou tarriest, it shall be reckoned to thee into sin.

²²If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.

²³Forsooth thou shalt keep, and do that that went out once of thy lips, as thou promisedest to thy Lord God, and hast spoken with thine own will and thy mouth.

²⁴If thou enterest into the vineyard of thy neighbour, eat thou grapes, as much as it pleaseth thee; but bear thou none out with thee.

²⁵If thou enterest into the corn field of thy friend, thou shalt break off the ears of the corn, and rub them together with thine hands; but thou shalt not reap them with a sickle.