Deuteronomy 23:4

An Amoni or Moavi shall not enter into the Kahal Hashem; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the Kahal Hashem ad olam;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

In Context

3A mamzer shall not enter into the Kahal Hashem; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the Kahal Hashem.

5Because they met you not with lechem and with mayim in the way, when ye came forth out of Mitzrayim; and because they hired against thee Balaam ben Be'or from Petor in Aram Naharayim, to curse thee.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:5He sent malachim (messengers) therefore unto Balaam ben Be'or to Petor, which is by the River + 22:5 Euphrates in his native land, to summon him, saying, Hinei, there is a people come out from Mitzrayim; hinei, they cover the face of ha'aretz, and they are settling next to me;

Numbers 23:7And he took up his mashal, and said, 1 Balak Melech Moav hath brought me from Aram (Syria), 1 out of the mountains of the east, saying, 1 Come, curse for me Ya'akov, 1 and come, denounce Yisroel. 1

Deuteronomy 2:29(As the Bnei Esav which dwell in Se'ir, and the Moavim which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Yarden into the land which Hashem Eloheinu giveth us.

1 Kings 18:4For it was so, when Izevel cut off the Nevi'im of Hashem, that Ovadyah took a hundred Nevi'im, and hid them by fifty in a me'arah (cave), and fed them with lechem and mayim —

Nehemiah 13:2Because they met not the Bnei Yisroel with lechem and with mayim, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them; howbeit Eloheinu turned the kelalah into a brocha.

Lamentations 1:10The adversary hath spread out his hand 1 upon all her precious things; 1 for she hath seen how the Goyim 1 entered into her [Beis] Hamikdash, 1 whom Thou didst command that 1 they should not enter into Thy Kahal (congregation, community). 1

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:2-9

Laws of Separation. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord . 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord ; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord . 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord ; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and… Read the whole commentary →

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