Deuteronomy 23:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:
לֹא־יָבֹ֥א מַמְזֵ֖ר בִּקְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם דּ֣וֹר עֲשִׂירִ֔י לֹא־יָ֥בֹא ל֖וֹ בִּקְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Neh 13:1And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:
- Neh 13:2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.
- Neh 4:3Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.
- Neh 4:7And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were exceedingly angry.
- Ruth 4:6He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego.
- Neh 13:23In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.
- Ruth 4:10And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.
- Ruth 4:22Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.