Deuteronomy 23 · Parashat Ki Teitzei

A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s skirt.

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

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

An ῾Ammonite or a Mo᾽avite 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 you came out of Miżrayim; and because they hired against thee Bil῾am, the son of Be῾or, from Petor of Aram-naharayim to curse thee.

But the Lord thy God would not hearken to Bil῾am; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor a Miżrian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

When thou goest out to encamp against thy enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing.

If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chances by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp, where thou shalt withdraw thyself:

and thou shalt have a spade among thy weapons, and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself outside, thou shalt dig with it, and shalt turn back and cover thy excrement:

for the Lord thy God walks in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant who is escaped from his master to thee:

he shall dwell with thee, among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it likes him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

There shall be no female prostitute of the daughters of Yisra᾽el, nor a male prostitute of the sons of Yisra᾽el.

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for both these are abomination to the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt not give interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of foodstuff, interest of anything that is lent upon interest;

to a stranger thou mayst give interest; but to thy brother thou shalt not give interest: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thy hand to in the land into which thou goest to possess it.

When thou shalt vow a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; according as thou hast vowed of thy freewill to the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayst eat thy fill of grapes at thy desire; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayst pluck the ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbour’s standing corn.