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主の集会に加わることができる者

23 睾丸のつぶれた者、陰茎を切り取られた者は主の集会に加わることはできません。

婚外子とその十代あとまでの子孫も、主の集会に加わることはできません。

アモン人とモアブ人はその十代あとまでの子孫も、絶対に主の集会に加わることはできません。 彼らは、あなたがたがエジプトを出て来た時、食べ物も水もくれなかったからです。歓迎しないばかりか、わざわざメソポタミヤのペトルからベオルの息子バラムを雇い、あなたをのろわせようとさえしました。 しかし主は、バラムの言うことに耳を貸さず、のろうどころか祝福するようにされました。あなたを愛しておられたからです。 生涯、どんな方法ででも、アモン人やモアブ人を助けてはいけません。

ただし、エドム人やエジプト人を嫌ってはなりません。エドム人は兄弟、エジプト人はかつて生活を共にした人たちだからです。 あなたといっしょに来たエジプト人の孫は、主の集会に加わることが許されます。

陣営をきよく保つ

9-10 戦争中、陣営内の男子は身をきよく保たなければなりません。夜、夢精で身を汚した者は陣営を出て、 11 夕方まで外にいなければなりません。日が暮れたら体を洗い、陣営に戻ることができます。 12 用を足すときは陣営の外に出なさい。 13 武器とくわを持って行き、穴を掘って用を足したら、きれいに土をかけます。 14 陣営内はいつも清潔にしておきなさい。あなたがたを守り、敵を負かそうと、主がその中を歩まれるからです。見苦しいものをごらんになって、主の心が離れないように気をつけなさい。

逃亡奴隷の保護

15-16 逃げて来た奴隷を、むりやり主人のもとへ引き渡してはいけません。決してしいたげず、どこでも好きな所に住まわせなさい。

神殿娼婦、男娼について

17-18 イスラエルの女子は神殿娼婦になってはいけません。イスラエルの男子も、神殿男娼になってはいけません。そのようなことで得たものを主にささげてはいけません。主はそれらのことを憎まれるからです。

利息について

19 イスラエル人には、利息を取って物を貸してはいけません。金銭、食物、そのほかどんなものについてもです。 20 外国人ならかまいませんが、イスラエル人からはだめです。兄弟であるイスラエル人から利息を取ったりするなら、約束の地において、主に祝福されません。

誓いについて

21 あなたの神、主に誓いを立てたら、すぐ実行しなさい。どんなことでも、ぐずぐずとあとに延ばしてはいけません。誓いを破るのは罪です。 22 誓いを取り消せば、罪にはなりません。 23 誓った以上、そのとおり実行するよう努めなさい。みずから主に誓ったのですから責任を取りなさい。

人の畑の作物について

24 人のぶどう園に入って好きなだけ食べるのはかまいませんが、持ち帰ってはいけません。 25 麦畑でも同じです。そこで食べる分だけ手で摘むのはかまいませんが、かまで刈り取ってはいけません。

Exclusion From the Assembly

23 [a]No one who has been emasculated(A) by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.

No one born of a forbidden marriage[b] nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.

No Ammonite(B) or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.(C) For they did not come to meet you with bread and water(D) on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam(E) son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim[c](F) to pronounce a curse on you.(G) However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse(H) into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves(I) you. Do not seek a treaty(J) of friendship with them as long as you live.(K)

Do not despise an Edomite,(L) for the Edomites are related to you.(M) Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.(N) The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

Uncleanness in the Camp

When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.(O) 10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.(P) 11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset(Q) he may return to the camp.(R)

12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves(S) about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy,(T) so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

Miscellaneous Laws

15 If a slave has taken refuge(U) with you, do not hand them over to their master.(V) 16 Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress(W) them.

17 No Israelite man(X) or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.(Y) 18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute[d] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.(Z)

19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.(AA) 20 You may charge a foreigner(AB) interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless(AC) you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

21 If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it,(AD) for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.(AE) 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.(AF) 23 Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the Lord your God with your own mouth.

24 If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. 25 If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.(AG)

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:1 In Hebrew texts 23:1-25 is numbered 23:2-26.
  2. Deuteronomy 23:2 Or one of illegitimate birth
  3. Deuteronomy 23:4 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
  4. Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog

23 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

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.

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:

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.

Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.