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Deuteronomy 23:8
Deuteronomy 23:8 is verse 8 of Deuteronomy chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
King James Version
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
World English Bible
The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
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Deuteronomy 23:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
7 Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
9 When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
10 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 23:1No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Romans 3:29Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
Romans 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 2:13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Deuteronomy 23:2No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
Deuteronomy 23:3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Exodus 20:6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.