Deuteronomy 23:1
No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
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Leviticus 18:8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
Leviticus 22:22You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.
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 27:20‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Isaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:1
The laws of this chapter provide, I. For the preserving of the purity and honour of the families of Israel, by excluding such as would be a disgrace to them, ver. 1-8 . II. For the preserving of the purity and honour of the camp of Israel when it was abroad, ver. 9-14 . III. For the encouraging and entertaining of slaves who fled to them, ver. 15, 16 . IV. Against whoredom, ver. 17, 18 . V. Against usury, ver. 19, 20 . IV. Against the breach of vows, ver. 21-23 . VII. What liberty a man might take in his… Read the whole commentary →