“^aNo one who is ¹emasculated or has his male organ cut off may enter the assembly of the LORD. 2 No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the assembly of the LORD. 3 ^aNo Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the assembly of the LORD, 4 ^abecause they did not meet you with ¹food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you ^bBalaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ²Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nevertheless, the LORD your God was unwilling to listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God ^aturned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God ^bloves you. 6 ^aYou shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

7 “You shall not loathe an ¹Edomite, for ^ahe is your brother; you shall not loathe an Egyptian, ^bbecause you were a stranger in his land. 8 The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

9 “When you go out as ¹an army against your enemies, you shall be on guard against every evil thing.

10 “^aIf there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not ¹reenter the camp. 11 But when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may ¹reenter the camp.

12 “You shall also have a place allocated outside the camp, so that you may go out there to relieve yourself, 13 and you shall have a ¹spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn and cover up your excrement. 14 Since ^athe LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to save you and to ¹defeat your enemies before you, your camp must be ^bholy; so He must not see ²anything indecent among you ³or He will turn away from you.

15 “^aYou shall not hand over to his master a slave who has ¹escaped from his master to you. 16 He shall live with you in your midst, in the place that he chooses in one of your ¹towns where it pleases him; ^ayou shall not mistreat him.

17 “^aNone of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, ^bnor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute. 18 You shall not bring the earnings of a prostitute or the money for a ^1adog into the house of the LORD your God as payment for any vowed offering, because both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

19 “^aYou are not to charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned on interest. 20 ^aYou may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that ^bthe LORD your God may bless you in all ¹that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to ²possess.

21 “^aWhen you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly require it of you, and it will be a sin ¹for you. 22 However, if you refrain from making vows, it will not be a sin ¹for you. 23 You shall be careful and perform what goes out of your lips, since in fact you have vowed a ¹voluntary offering to the LORD your God, whatever you have ²promised.

24 “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat grapes ¹until you are satisfied; but you are not to put any in your ²basket.

25 “^aWhen you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you are not to ¹use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.