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Deuteronomy 23:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 23:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Membership Exclusions. 2 No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting can enter the assembly of the Lord.[a] 3 No one who is illegitimate[b] can enter the assembly of the Lord, nor can his descendants to the tenth generation enter the assembly of the Lord. 4 No Ammonite or Moabite can enter the assembly of the Lord, even their descendants to the tenth generation cannot enter the assembly of the Lord
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- Deuteronomy 23:2 According to some scholars, this mutilation may have indicated that person now belonged to a Canaanite divinity.
- Deuteronomy 23:3 One who is illegitimate: a person who had a foreigner for one of his parents.