The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the LORD’s assembly.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 23:8 in context
Deuteronomy 23:5–11
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Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.
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You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
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You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
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The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the LORD’s assembly.
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When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
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If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;
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but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
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