of Israel: and she shall be his wife, and he may not a Neh. 1:31 2 1A bastard shall not enter into the Congrega-
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19 And shall condemn him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father 1of the maid, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a maid of Israel: and she shall be his wife, and he may not put her away all his life. 20 But if this thing be true, that the maid be not found a virgin, 21 Then shall they bring forth the maid to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones to death: for she hath wrought folly in Israel, by playing the whore in her father's house: so thou shalt put evil away from among you. 22 ¶ cIf a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, then they shall die even both twain: to wit, the man that lay with the wife, and the wife: so thou shalt put away evil from Israel. 23 ¶ If a maid be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the town and lie with her, 24 Then shall ye bring them both out unto the gates of the same city, and shall stone them with stones to death: the maid because she cried not, being in the city, and the man, because he hath 1humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. 25 ¶ But if a man find a betrothed maid in the field and force her, and lie with her, then the man that lay with her, shall die alone: 26 And unto the maid thou shalt do nothing, because there is in the maid no 1cause of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor and woundeth him to death, so 2is this matter. 27 For he found her in the fields: the betrothed maid cried, and there was no man to succor her. 28 ¶ dIf a man find a maid that is not betrothed, and take her, and lie with her, and they be found, 29 Then the man that lay with her, shall give unto the maid's father fifty shekels of silver: and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all his life. 30 ¶ No man shall 1take his father's wife, nor shall uncover his father's skirt. 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.
1 None that is hurt by bursting, or that hath his privy member cut off, 1shall enter into the Congregation of the Lord. 2 1A 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. 3 aThe Ammonites and the Moabites shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord: even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the Congregation of the Lord forever, 4 Because they 1met you not with bread and water in the way, when ye came out of Egypt, and bbecause they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor in Aram-naharaim, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless, the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but the Lord thy God turned the curse to a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee. 6 Thou 1shall not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days forever. 7 ¶ Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite: for he is thy brother, neither shalt thou abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8 The children that are begotten 1of them in their third generation, shall enter into the Congregation of the Lord. 9 ¶ When thou goest out with the host against thine enemies, keep thee then from all wickedness. 10 ¶ If there be among you any that is unclean by that which cometh to him by night, he shall go out of the host, and shall not enter into the host, 11 But at even he shall wash himself with water, and when the sun is down, he shall enter into the host. 12 ¶ Thou shalt have a place also without the host, whither thou shalt 1resort, 13 And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons, and when thou wouldest sit down without, thou shalt dig therewith, and returning, thou shalt 1cover thine excrements. 14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee, and to give thee thine enemies before thee: therefore thine host shall be holy, that he see no filthy thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 ¶ Thou shalt not 1deliver the servant unto his master, which is escaped from his master unto thee.
c Lev. 20:20
d Exod. 22:16
chapter 23
a Neh. 1:31
b Num. 22:5,6
22:19 1 For the fault of the child redoundeth to the shame of the parents: therefore he was recompensed when she was faultless. 22:24 1 Or, defiled. 22:26 1 Or, no sin worthy of death. 2 Meaning, that the innocent cannot be punished. 22:30 1 He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning hereby all other degrees forbidden, Lev. 18. 23:1 1 Either to bear office, or to marry a wife. 23:2 1 This was to cause them to live chastely, that their posterity might not be rejected.
23:4 1 Hereby he condemneth all that further not the children of God in their vocation. 23:6 1 Thou shalt have nothing to do with them. 23:8 1 If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received cir cumcision. 23:12 1 For the necessities of nature. 23:13 1 Meaning hereby that his people should be pure both in body and soul. 23:15 1 This is meant of the heathen, who fled for their masters' cru elty, and embraced the true religion.