Deuteronomy 23 · Kingdoms of Scripture

1A man crushed by crushing, or one whose pouring organ is cut off, shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh.

Notes (1)

Translation
Petsua dakka is crushed by a crushing. Shofkhah is the organ that pours. The line names the injury.

2A mamzer shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mamzer is printed as written. The line does not say who the person’s parents were.

3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh, forever,

4because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because he hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.

Notes (1)

Translation
Aram-naharaim is Aram of the two rivers. This line names Pethor that way. Numbers 22:5 names Pethor by the River, in the land of the sons of his people. Both wordings are printed where they stand.

5But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

6You shall not seek their peace or their good all your days, forever.

7You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his land.

8Children who are born to them, the third generation, may enter the assembly of Yahweh.

9When you go out as a camp against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every bad thing.

10If there is among you a man who is not clean from a night occurrence, he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp.

Notes (1)

Translation
Miqreh laylah is a night occurrence, an emission of seed.

11And it shall be, as evening turns, he shall wash in water, and as the sun comes in he may come inside the camp.

12You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out there, outside.

13You shall have a peg on your gear, and it shall be, when you sit outside, that you dig with it and turn and cover your excrement.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yated is a peg. Azen is your gear. Tse’ah is excrement.

14For Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to rescue you and to give your enemies before you, and your camp shall be holy. He shall not see in you the nakedness of a thing and turn back from after you.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ervat davar is the nakedness of a thing, something exposed and indecent.

15You shall not hand a slave over to his master who has escaped to you from his master.

16He shall live with you, in your midst, in the place he chooses in one of your gates, where it is good for him. You shall not oppress him.

17There shall not be a qedesha from the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a qadesh from the sons of Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Qedesha and qadesh share the root of set apart. Here they name a woman and a man attached to a shrine. The line does not say what they did.

18You shall not bring a prostitute’s hire, or the price of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow, for both of them are an abomination of Yahweh your God.

Notes (1)

Translation
Etnan zonah is a prostitute’s hire. Mechir kelev is the price of a dog. Kelev is the word dog.

19You shall not charge your brother a bite, a bite of silver, a bite of food, a bite of anything that bites.

Notes (1)

Translation
Neshekh is a bite, the charge taken on a loan. Nashakh is to bite.

20To the foreigner you may charge a bite, but to your brother you shall not charge a bite, so that Yahweh your God blesses you in all that your hand sends out, on the land that you are entering to take possession of.

21When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for Yahweh your God will require it, require it from you, and it will be an offense in you.

22But if you hold back from vowing, it will not be an offense in you.

23What has gone out of your lips you shall keep and do, as you vowed to Yahweh your God a free gift, what you spoke with your mouth.

24When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat grapes as your life craves, until you are full, but you shall not put any into your container.

25When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand, but you shall not swing a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.

1A man crushed by crushing, or one whose pouring organ is cut off, shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh.

Notes (1)

Translation
Petsua dakka is crushed by a crushing. Shofkhah is the organ that pours. The line names the injury.

2A mamzer shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mamzer is printed as written. The line does not say who the person’s parents were.

3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation shall not enter the assembly of Yahweh, forever,

4because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because he hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.

Notes (1)

Translation
Aram-naharaim is Aram of the two rivers. This line names Pethor that way. Numbers 22:5 names Pethor by the River, in the land of the sons of his people. Both wordings are printed where they stand.

5But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

6You shall not seek their peace or their good all your days, forever.

7You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his land.

8Children who are born to them, the third generation, may enter the assembly of Yahweh.

9When you go out as a camp against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every bad thing.

10If there is among you a man who is not clean from a night occurrence, he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp.

Notes (1)

Translation
Miqreh laylah is a night occurrence, an emission of seed.

11And it shall be, as evening turns, he shall wash in water, and as the sun comes in he may come inside the camp.

12You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out there, outside.

13You shall have a peg on your gear, and it shall be, when you sit outside, that you dig with it and turn and cover your excrement.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yated is a peg. Azen is your gear. Tse’ah is excrement.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ervat davar is the nakedness of a thing, something exposed and indecent.

15You shall not hand a slave over to his master who has escaped to you from his master.

16He shall live with you, in your midst, in the place he chooses in one of your gates, where it is good for him. You shall not oppress him.

17There shall not be a qedesha from the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a qadesh from the sons of Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Qedesha and qadesh share the root of set apart. Here they name a woman and a man attached to a shrine. The line does not say what they did.

18You shall not bring a prostitute’s hire, or the price of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow, for both of them are an abomination of Yahweh your God.

Notes (1)

Translation
Etnan zonah is a prostitute’s hire. Mechir kelev is the price of a dog. Kelev is the word dog.

19You shall not charge your brother a bite, a bite of silver, a bite of food, a bite of anything that bites.

Notes (1)

Translation
Neshekh is a bite, the charge taken on a loan. Nashakh is to bite.

21When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for Yahweh your God will require it, require it from you, and it will be an offense in you.

22But if you hold back from vowing, it will not be an offense in you.

23What has gone out of your lips you shall keep and do, as you vowed to Yahweh your God a free gift, what you spoke with your mouth.

24When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat grapes as your life craves, until you are full, but you shall not put any into your container.

25When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand, but you shall not swing a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.