Deuteronomy 23:2
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.
KJV
Non ingredietur mamzer, hoc est, de scorto natus, in ecclesiam Domini, usque ad decimam generationem.
Vulgate
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
ASV
לֹֽא יָבֹ֧א פְצֽוּעַ דַּכָּ֛א וּ/כְר֥וּת שָׁפְכָ֖ה בִּ/קְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה
Hebrew
A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 23:1 — He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
- Heb 12:8 — But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
- Isa 57:3 — But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
- Judg 11:2 — And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
- Zech 9:6 — And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.