Deuteronomy 23

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

  • 23:2 No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. None of their descendants may enter it, not even in the tenth generation. 1
  • 23:5 But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam. Instead the LORD your God made the curse a blessing for you, since the LORD your God loved you. 1
  • 23:7 Do not detest an Edomite, for he is your relative. Do not detest an Egyptian, because you lived as a outsider in his land. 1
  • 23:16 Let him live among you, in the place he chooses in any one of your towns, wherever suits him best. Do not mistreat him. 1
  • 23:18 Do not bring a prostitute's earnings or the wages of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God. 1
  • 23:24 When you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you like, until you are full, but do not put any into a basket. 1
  • 23:25 When you go into your neighbor's field of standing grain, you may pick heads of grain with your hand, but do not take a sickle to your neighbor's grain. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. The Key in My Hand · Gareth Evans

    Jesus - The Healer cites Deuteronomy 23:2

    …into full fellowship with the congregation of the Lord “even to the tenth generation” (Deuteronomy 23:2)! These are Old Testament judgements showing how sin can affect, not just the sinner, but…

  2. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Tenth Stage cites Deut. 23:24

    …gardener had them into the vineyards, and bid them refresh themselves with the dainties, Deut. 23:24; he also showed them there the King’s walks and arbors where he delighted to be: And here…

  3. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Wasn’t Christianity Used to Defend Slavery? cites Deuteronomy 23:16

    …A runaway slave was not to be sent back: “Let him live among you wherever he chooses” (Deuteronomy 23:16). The New Testament lists “slave traders” alongside murderers and liars as people who…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites Deut 23: 25

    …standing corn of thy neighbour, thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s corn.’ Deut 23: 25. Property must be respected; God has set this eighth commandment as a hedge about a man’s…

  5. The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours · Richard Allen

    An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves cites Deut. 23. 7

    …people, "Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land." Deut. 23. 7. The meek and humble Jesus, the great pattern of humanity, and every other virtue that…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.10 The Tenth Commandment cites Deut 23: 18

    …shalt not commit adultery.’ It causes uncleanness; you read of the ‘hire of a whore.’ Deut 23: 18. An adulteress for money sets both conscience and chastity to sale. Covetousness is a…

  7. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 21 — Of the Eternal Election, by Which God Has Predestinated Some to Salvation, and Others to Destruction cites Deut. 23:5

    …peculiar people; while in another, love is declared to be the cause of their protection (Deut. 23:5). This, too, believers with one voice proclaim, “He shall choose our inheritance for us…